The problem with comp.lang.lisp (and similar forums): it has very weak ways to deal with the garbage.<p>I&#x27;m not motivated to participate in a forum, where people interact with racist abusers like WJ William James (or whatever his name is). Minimum would be a filter which gets rid of all his posts, answers to it and discussions about that. Well, than I prefer to use a forum which bans him or has other ways to get rid of that garbage. Free speech is fine, but I really don&#x27;t want to see Ruby code in a Lisp forum mixed with White Race Supremacy signatures...<p>That&#x27;s why I prefer to use Stackoverflow: Metadata, rating, detection of duplicates, etc etc.