It has it's pluses and minuses like anything else.

+ You and everyone else has time to think over and compose coherent questions and responses.

+ You can pick what discussion to participate in.



- You and everyone else have to wait, somtimes for a whole day, for a response.

- Sometimes you have a brilliant well-worded response that will now be totally useless and unimpressive because somone else has beaten you to it an hour ago.