[lsiebert]

Metafilter. 5 dollar one time fee, actively moderated intelligent conversation about the best stuff on the internet. An ask question section that's quora without people trying to market themselves, and more. The 5 dollar fee (plus occasional donations from users who care) doesn't just pay for the site, it keeps out a ton of BS from spammers.

[swah]

How crazy - I always thought that was a spammy site like Yahoo Answers. I have to take a second look.

Can you show me an interesting conversation?

(Only 369 programming posts?? http://www.metafilter.com/tags/programming)

[lsiebert]

What's interesting to you?

Front Page Post about Article about the Maintainers of old technology, and discussion https://www.metafilter.com/158685/The-Work-That-Keeps-This-W...

Ask Post about sites for Downtime that don't deal with current events

https://ask.metafilter.com/294568/Fun-distracting-websites-f...

Here's an ask I thought was useful, mentions SICP for programming.

https://ask.metafilter.com/293313/What-is-the-critical-book-...

I guess for me it's a passionate engaged community of smart people, including some moderately famous ones.