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I find Academia.StackExchanage [1] and the entire StackExchange ecosystem [2] quite awesome for learning, teaching and simply discussing about anything related
by sktrdie 12y ago
I find Academia.StackExchanage [1] and the entire StackExchange ecosystem [2] quite awesome for learning, teaching and simply discussing about anything related to specific communities.
For anything else there's always Mailing Lists (ML). What I've learned over the years is that it doesn't really matter which technology or which format is used to have a discussion online (IRC, Mailing Lists, Reddit/HN sites). What matters is the community and the people behind it.
For example on IRC, specifically freenode, there's tons of channels with tremendous quality of discourse because of the moderators being able to keep the quality that way.
If you're looking for discourse about Math, try #math on freenode and signup to math.stackexchange and see which mailing lists exist out there. Perhaps even look into Math academic journals out there and see whether there are mailing lists to start discussing things.
1. http://academia.stackexchange.com/ http://academia.stackexchange.com/
2. http://stackexchange.com/sites http://stackexchange.com/sites
- j2kun 12y agoThis is a good point. I have found cstheory.stackexchange and math.stackexchange a good place to field questions of mine (with the latter mostly being for stupid questions that I should already know the answer to). That being said, the stackexchange community was designed for the purpose of quashing discussion, especially that which doesn't directly address the question at hand, even if those discussions are productive and insightful.