MeFi Tio

The MetaFilter example puts the lie to a some entrenched online myths. One is that you can't have a conversation online without leaning on props like voting systems and heavy-handed moderation. Another is that growing websites are doomed to suffer from entropy, losing their focus and culture with time. And another is that \"community\" is just a euphemism for lettings commentators run amuck and calling it progress. 

It doesn't have to be that way. A decade later, MetaFilter is thriving.