When I looked (decade ago), your description would have characterized their online haunts but not IRL meetings. Maybe being online turns anything into Reddit/H

When I looked (decade ago), your description would have characterized their online haunts but not IRL meetings. Maybe being online turns anything into Reddit/HN. On the other hand, word was most members are inactive and only a small percentage turn up at IRL events at all, i.e. strong (self) selection effects.