Apparently I'm in the minority; I read it for the articles. Certainly the level of discourse here compares favorably against the average mass-interest discussi

Apparently I'm in the minority; I read it for the articles. Certainly the level of discourse here compares favorably against the average mass-interest discussion board -- but that's a textbook example of "damning with faint praise" if there ever was one. The ratio of signal to (choose one or more of restating the obvious / watercooler chitchat / unnecessary self-promotion / half-off-topic hobbyhorse / self-congratulatory echo chamber / just plain wrong) here seems about on par with that found in most other reasonably-well-moderated special interest forums. I'll dip into it occasionally, and I'm not above contributing to the not-signal with my own blather from time to time, but it's definitely not the primary reason I'm here.