As far as I'm concerned, Markos is running the premiere experiment in online community building. It's got a lot more traffic than slashdot, and the topics are potentially more contentous. It's a pretty amazing thing, really.

I've been hanging around there for a while, longer than pretty much any other single site online. Back during the run-up to the war and the beginnings of the Dean campaign, I used to post a lot, and it was good. It was a great community.

I don't post all that much any more because I've got a lot of other things going on, and Markos is right that the faces have changed. But I'm still a proud and dedicated lurker. If there's ever a t-shirt, I'll buy one.