Forums with quality discourse
petercooper: I want a site that has, like HN's guidelines state: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".MetaFilter - http://metafilter.com/ - meets this description, but the definition of "intellectual curiosity" is somewhat wider than on HN - that is, it's more literary and cultural and far less "techie." It's been going over 11 years though (disclaimer: I've been a member for 9).There's also the Joel on Software boards and the just-launched "Gravity" - http://www.gravity.com - has some interesting discussions kicking off already.Other than that, the "programming" sub-Reddit isn't that bad: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/