In an age where websites are always hunting for the next great trick for keeping unruly commentors in line – voting mechanisms? User scores? Enforced real names? – MetaFilter seems to be held together by the sheer stubbornness of its culture.

From (mefi’s own) Ivor Tossell at the Globe & Mail, here’s one of the best short explanations of Metafilter I’ve yet read.

And I’m not just saying that because it quotes me.