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11 Post author: lukeprog 13 August 2013 05:55PM

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Comment author: solipsist 14 August 2013 04:16:52AM *  5 points [-]

You cite MathOverflow as an excellent community, and I agree. Joel Spolsky (Joel on Software, and later founder of StackOverflow) gave a talk on the The Cultural Anthropology of Stack Exchange and how they attracted and maintain communities. The talk starts off with a criticism of deeply nested replies. I disagreed with that criticism, but found the rest of the talk concrete and lucid.