Curious responses. Most HN'ers seem to be saying "same old same old". But I thought this was a very interesting and thought-provoking article. In any case, the

Curious responses. Most HN'ers seem to be saying "same old same old". But I thought this was a very interesting and thought-provoking article. In any case, the question of how to provide a good (for various values of "good") social environment on the web is a difficult and important one. The more people that think about it and talk about it, the better. (And, on a rather unrelated note, I printed the article out, so that I could read it more carefully later, thereby learning that Linux FF 3.5 -- which came with my recent upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 -- has that wonderful print-preview interface that Win FF has had for years. That's cool, and it removes almost [but not quite] the last reason for me to keep my Win machine around. Still, I wonder why it took them so long; after all, the Win & Linux versions of FF have been more or less identical in most other ways.)