On the sickness of our community

There are other sites I pay attention to which don't constitute "FOSS community sites" and yet are well into the "hive of scum and villainy" category

• 4chan (particularly /b/ but really most channels that have anyone actually writing rather than just dumping images, even /ck/ has plenty of racism and just completely out of place arguments and name calling)

• Reddit (presumably there are sub-reddits that are full of calm polite people and I just don't read any of those)

• Moo Bunny (a freeform pseudonymous forum which has at least two separate individuals posting endless obscenity in an apparent attempt to render it useless)

• Youtube comments for almost anything or anyone popular

• Something Awful (at least some parts of it)

And there are also a whole bunch of sites that, if they aren't clearly _worse_ than LWN are certainly not significantly _better_ such as

• RationalWiki's "saloon bar" forum

• OS News

• The major Amiga web forums (Amigaworld. Amiga.org, etc.) because there's nothing so bitterly fought over as the last crumbs of the cake

• Slashdot (if you still read it you probably have threshold set to +2 and still ignore most of what's written, but try -1 because that's a fairer comparison to unfiltered LWN.net)

• The official (moderated) forums for the MMO World of Warcraft.