I'm not so sure. See, you could say I'm politically on the left, but I've noticed Something Awful is way too radical for my experience of HN and Reddit-style leftism. There is this paradoxical American anti-intellectual air about the site which I didn't notice until using it for a couple years, that turns me off from talking about anything serious.

I know it's a comedy site, but often people and mods get angry because you don't agree to the same "eat the rich" mob mentality.

US politics has ruined the Internet, and I would like that as far away from my software talk. If a place is politicised, I'd rather have good old anarchism which works well with anti-censorship/cryptography discussion and hacker mentality, than anything on both sides of the political spectrum which turn people into mindless followers.

I'll second that. Though I have rarely logged into it the last ten years, I used to be more active on SA before that.

Lots of people have complained about moderation there but I think it's just a case of avoid the designated spam areas, and don't post nothing.

The latter part is how the HN community tends to self-curate comments anyway.

Is Serious Hardware Software Crap still there?