The community indeed. I'm still a /. reader, but I have to say, it is very occasional that I do not know what the comment will be before opening them. Most of

The community indeed. I'm still a /. reader, but I have to say, it is very occasional that I do not know what the comment will be before opening them. Most of the +5 comment are traditional /. "meme" (OSS good, closed-source bad, MS bad, Google good, ...) and their counter of course. That has always been the case to some extend (that's /. DNA), but it has gotten to the point that it is extremely hard to find any type of information whatsoever just an endless battle of people throwing rumours (you would think that the majority of /. reader are board member of major tech corp), group-think opinion or unrelated info at each other to "win". It reads now like a political blog for teenagers. HN has great comment, to me that the closest to reproduce the /. experience of 10 years ago (although it could use a good flamewar between friends once in a while) But even the more chaotic reddit manage to show interesting comments on top.