Took the time to read the comments on this post too and they were also worth reading, and a stop at discoverbettervalue suggested the community quality matches the content quality, when the conversation around a piece is as good as the piece itself you know you have found a real corner of the internet.
Stayed longer than planned because each section earned the next, and a look at discoverbettervalue kept that pulling effect going across more pages, the kind of subtle pull that good writing exerts on attention is something I find harder and harder to resist when I encounter it on the open web today.
