Are there places to have nuanced conversations online?

Question

As per the title, are there places where people still have nuanced conversations online? Especially conversations that span across multiple days.Because even here on HN where conversations are, for the most part, fairly great you still have the issue of new content coming up daily and so the conversation has to move on the new topic.I personally had luck using emails to interact with people but I was wondering if other people had different experiences.

wrp · Accepted Answer

You raise two issues, 1) avoiding bad participants, and 2) pursuing long discussions.
Any forum with open membership will eventually attract people who can't/won't handle nuanced conversation. The only way to completely be safe is with a moderated mailing list.
For long conversations, look for moderated, special interest forums. I think HN is as good as a general purpose forum can be, with its heavy moderation and fairly restricted audience.

wsgeorge · Answer

If you found such a place, and word got out, enough people will join in on the conversation, and the possibility of nuance will diminish and be eventually lost.Heck, I've had a hard time teasing out the nuance of some of my points when debating with a single friend over phone. For almost two hours. This sort of thing only really works in high trust situations where everyone assumes good faith all the time.