FWIW, SO is generally doing a good job, for a market that was plagued with crappy sites like you describe. So it's a decent option for that particular kind of interactions. The feature of suggesting existing answers based on your question can work pretty well, and it looks like it deals well with scalability issues -- both the technical aspects and the social ones (by giving experienced users moderation power). Advertising isn't too bad either (not that I see any of it though...). <div class="gmail_quote">On Apr 11, 2012 4:14 PM, "Neil Van Dyke" <<a href="mailto:neil@neilvandyke.org">neil@neilvandyke.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Two opinions: 1. Going to StackOverflow.com to talk about Racket is like moving to Topeka to break into Hollywood acting. 2. One of the StackOverflow comments mentioned searchability of forums. One of my pet peeves is all these sites that archive email lists and/or bug lists (often only so that they can sell ads), so that a Google search on a question gives you numerous hits for the same content, just in different fonts, and you have to wade through many such duplicates. This happens with lots of GNU/Linux topics, and nowadays it happens for Racket, too. Neil V. -- <a href="http://www.neilvandyke.org/" target="_blank">http://www.neilvandyke.org/</a> ____________________ Racket Users list: <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> </blockquote></div>