Most of my Askville friends were joining Fluther— Askville was a excellent, diverse community. Any sane website hosts would want what we had. Even flame-war dezeins would be helpful or there for one another in times of need.
But the mods of Askville wanted simple, direct questions and did everything they could to prevent us from dialogue—the final blow, before everyone lost interest, was they moved all dialogue to a “discussion board”—which was hard to find. Most of our questions stimulated discussion and conversation and helped opposite sides of an issue relate to one another and understand one another.
Other strange things happened on Askville, For instance, they started paying foreigners in unknown lands to pose ill-written, incomprehensible questions. Trolls were allowed to triumph and others got strikes that would delete legitimate responses (kind of like IMDb). But it was the eventual removal of conversation to “discussion boards” that made must of us give up, and Askville had to shut down the site for lack of interest.
Most of my Askville friends told me to find them on Fluther,