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Luke was asking for "high quality relatively general interest forums". Somethingawful is damn near foundational as a general interest forum community, and has high quality, albeit niche subforums.
The point wasn't that Lesswrong should be more like Somethingawful, the point was that attracting a larger user-base will incidentally achieve Luke's goal.
I will admit that my knowledge of SA and its environment and culture is limited, but nothing I've seen would cause me to think of them as particularly "high quality".
I don't know what his goal is.
I haven't read the SA forums regularly in a while, but AFAIK they're like Reddit: the good stuff's tucked away in (some of) the lower traffic specialist subforums, while the more popular, general subforums naturally lie at the lowest common denominator level because of the sheer number of people reading & posting.
My webpages sometimes are linked on the SA forums (usually relating to either nootropics or Neon Genesis Evangelion; I've poked around the relevant threads looking for useful points or citations or criticism). Nothing about them ever made me think that the SA forums were unusually insightful or intelligent.
This is why veteran SA goons never read the general discussion page. =)