>>295The comment board on Userfriendly.org used to be my favourite hangout from early 2001 to 2003―friendly posters, witty banter, light-handed moderation based on the rule-of-thumb of "don't post what you wouldn't like your friend's 14-year-old sister to see", and even politics trolls dealt with in level-headed discussion. I spent so much time there that my parents' phone bill went through the roof several times until they got a flat-rate internet service (ah, the days of pay-by-minute dial-up Internet). Then I got too busy with studies to visit more than once every few months, much less comment, and when I got more free time and came back, I discovered the place had turned into a hive of oversensitive whiners, right-wingers who got offended as soon as their perceptions were challenged, and moderators who had banned several of the most interesting posters. Most of the other interesting people I had come to regard as friends had left in protest shortly after the first bannings. The exiles formed a small LiveJournal community which I also joined, but it never really was anywhere near as good as it had been on the comment board.
Currently, it's a toss-up between /dqn/ and the regulars in the Vocaroo threads on 4chan's /soc/. Speaking of which, woo yay, 4chan's back up!
>>297Do you use social networking sites for work-related reasons, privately, both, or neither? If your answer isn't "neither", post your impressions of the communities you've seen and/or joined there!