It can be a bit of a double-edged sword.

The communities here aren’t amazingly busy here yet, but the signal to noise ratio is good, a bit like Usenet before The September that Never Ended. More people involved would be nice, but quality should trump quantity. Unfortunately, in reality it’s terribly hard to do - if the communities here start getting as popular as the ones on Reddit, the problems the Reddit ones also come. Sorry, no, I don’t have a solution to that…