I'm interested in politics, however /r/politics has awful comment quality and isn't a great sub to visit.
I'd also like to hear about people's favorite subreddits in terms of comment quality, as I'd happily read a passionate and informative stance on something I'm usually not interested in compared to what I read on /r/politics.
Edit: I meant to use it as an example -- I'm actually interested in any type of subreddit, I meant to explain! So thank you for the suggestions and I'll definitely check them out :)
/r/neutralpolitics - It's not necessarily trying to be completely neutral, but it's trying to be factual and requires sources to be posted.
/r/christianity usually has fairly high quality comments and conversations among Christians and non-Christians.
/r/netsec has high quality posts and comments.
/r/hockeyplayers has a very helpful community but probably not of interest if you're not a hockey player.
/r/goodyearwelt has awesome reviews and information about high quality footwear
/r/malefashionadvice is one of the better run larger subreddits that has writers from major publications that post and comment
/r/askhistorians is very heavily moderated which means a lot of the most interesting questions remain unanswered for a long time, but the answers that are provided are very well thought out and sourced
/r/asksocialscience is similar to /r/askhistorians just different content
This is bizarre to me - the average comment quality on /r/politics is both more informed and higher level than about 90% of subreddits.
Granted it's center-left most of the time (from a US perspective anyhow - as a European it is at best centrist) but that's more a function of a reaction to the current climate than anything else.
So I guess I'd ask: "what kind of comments are you looking for?" because outside of the science communities you're not going to find better discussion threads.
/r/politics does have quality comments that also get upvoted. However, you have to dig through 90% of bad comments.
For instance, you get one article about Trump's nickname for Sessions being Mr. McGhee. The comments decide this is bad. Then you read the comments on other stories and people are gleefully calling him a racist elf.
That's just pointless and is a disincentive to visiting. But I keep returning to the subreddit because of how helpful it is in keeping up with the Russia stuff and because of the rarer insightful comments that give reasonable perspectives you will never hear a major publication speculate on.
I'd also like to hear about people's favorite subreddits in terms of comment quality, as I'd happily read a passionate and informative stance on something I'm usually not interested in compared to what I read on /r/politics.
Edit: I meant to use it as an example -- I'm actually interested in any type of subreddit, I meant to explain! So thank you for the suggestions and I'll definitely check them out :)