I think you misunderstood the meaning of the word interface. I wasn't talking about content, I was talking about how to get and add to the content. Even the most primitive of the newsreaders I've used in the 15 years I've been doing Usenet (well, perhaps except for cat), offers a better interface than a webbrowser. At least they allow you to use your editor of a choice, instead of a tiny <textarea> field, where you can use plain text instead of a badly defined HTML derivate. (Oh, only if we had the option of using plain text, or POD (this *is* a Perl site after all.... ;-))

Usenet allows you to do (that is 'read' and 'write') more in the same time span than a website.

no spam

Funny you say that. Most usenet postings in comp.lang.perl.misc do not contain any commercial message. At perlmonks, every single page contains commercials. To reply to something, I will see at least four pages (the original post, the reply page, the preview page, and the submitted page). That's 4 times commercials. Much more than you see on Usenet, as long as you stay away from the sex groups.

no PurlGurl/Godzilla

It takes one line in a newsreaders configuration file to permanently ignore someone. You will no longer see any postings of said person. You don't even have that option at perlmonks.

I agree the signal-to-noise ratio appears to be better here than on comp.lang.perl.misc, although the tolerance on bad or incorrect answers is lower on clpm than here (perhaps you see that as an advantage of perlmonks - I don't). There are more bad postings on clpm than here, I agree. But I've also seen more gems on clpm than here. Perlmonks does have its advantages, but certainly not when it comes to the interface.

Abigail