System Administrators, Let's Hang Out

I found this question on one of my favorite tech help sites, serverfault.com. It's a wonderful wonderful resource for help (totally free!) for people who are system administrators by day and geeks by night. It's actually one of the "trilogy" of websites; there's serverfault for admins, stackoverflow.com for programmers, and superuser.com for "power users".

One of the things that seems to be underserved on the webbertubes is a good community for system administrators and geeks. The closest I've really found so far is serverfault, but really it's a help site; you have a question, you get answers from peers (that are vetted and voted up or down by peers as well). But a social site for geeks?

So someone asked where system admins go online to "hang out" and be geeky. There seem to be some good leads with that question, but still it's not flooded with answers. Weird...you'd think that the Internet would have some good sources of respite from neurotypicals online.

Part of me wonders if in general sysadmins are antisocial even in an environment as socially hostile as the Internet to the point where they can't even bother to show up at online hangouts made for them.

At any rate for now I get a good geek fix from Serverfault. If you're a programmer, check out Stackoverflow or if you're just a power user go to Superuser. If you have an interest in...just about anything else, check out the Stackexchange site, where there are sites using the Stackoverflow engine to run specialty sites for asking and getting advice on everything from parenting to World of Warcraft. Okay, maybe not tons of sites yet, and directories are being created but it is growing rapidly...check them out and let me know if you've found any gems in these sites! It would be great if I managed to give a reader something useful to work with.