[rleigh]

I stopped using it entirely a few years back. It got to be an unhealthy obsession which I realised was making me quite unhappy.

While I read Hacker News and some technical subreddits, I don't think these are entirely benign, but they are an interest rather than an obsession. They do both have an element of gamification--your comment upvotes/karma etc., but they aren't actively sucking you in with a never-ending stream of status updates from the site members either.