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[Saphire]

Many people swap and change the forums they visit. Some forums disappear overnight, some flourish for years.
If you enjoy the chat and debate that many forums encourage, which is the best/worst one you have ever been a member on?
Or do you prefer lurking and reading, better not to get involved in the discussions, but you enjoy the forum format anyway?

 

[Saphire]

Maybe the interest in forums has waned quicker than expected.

 

[LadyOnArooftop]

A good few years ago I used to visit a lovely comics forum, admin'd by a nice couple in the U.S. It only had around 40 contributors, but everyone stuck to the subject matter with no arguments whatsoever. It was a nice environment, good people, you know? I'd been a member for a couple of years, but for some reason I hadn't been on for a month or so, when I did get round to clicking on it - it wasn't there, it had just disappeared. I often wonder what happened to it.
I occasionally visit the green and red arrow, up/down forum, but this UKchat is my main one.

 

[Saphire]

i dont know . . . . . times i think and wish i would of stuck with my plan of being a lurker (say nothing until spoken to) that was my plan before i joined this but my plan changed

Lol, it's hard to be a lurker godsgoodguy. Sometimes I think I may log in a forum and just read the comments, but invariably there will be something I just have to type my opinion on.

 

[Saphire]

A good few years ago I used to visit a lovely comics forum, admin'd by a nice couple in the U.S. It only had around 40 contributors, but everyone stuck to the subject matter with no arguments whatsoever. It was a nice environment, good people, you know? I'd been a member for a couple of years, but for some reason I hadn't been on for a month or so, when I did get round to clicking on it - it wasn't there, it had just disappeared. I often wonder what happened to it.
I occasionally visit the green and red arrow, up/down forum, but this UKchat is my main one.

It's sad when a forum goes under.
I used to belong to a lovely American run forum called Dallas Digest. Like you said about your comics forum, this one also had very few arguments, the people were genuinely nice, lots of them actually knew each other in real life too.
That disappeared, I think an offshoot of the forum opened under a different name, but I didn't really post on that one.

 

[Altair]

It's sad when a forum goes under.
I used to belong to a lovely American run forum called Dallas Digest. Like you said about your comics forum, this one also had very few arguments, the people were genuinely nice, lots of them actually knew each other in real life too.
That disappeared, I think an offshoot of the forum opened under a different name, but I didn't really post on that one.

Now you have said something...."Lot's of them actually knew each other in REAL life"...Vast difference HERE...Very few folks on THIS site know each other. That's one of the problems with 'Anonymous' registration.

If we all knew each other there would be way less aggression.

Sadly that's not how it works.

I'd love to be friends with many members here...But i would never agree to it, purely because I don't know them.

Being anonymous lends us to behave differently than when in a room with people.

 

[Saphire]

Now you have said something...."Lot's of them actually knew each other in REAL life"...Vast difference HERE...Very few folks on THIS site know each other. That's one of the problems with 'Anonymous' registration.

If we all knew each other there would be way less aggression.

Sadly that's not how it works.

I'd love to be friends with many members here...But i would never agree to it, purely because I don't know them.

Being anonymous lends us to behave differently than when in a room with people.

I think you are dead right, if you actually know someone personally, you are not going to speak to them like an anonymous stranger.
Thing is on forums, if we post on them long enough, we do get to know that person even if we never meet.

Personally I have no desire to meet up with anyone on a forum, I like some people a lot, but forum life and real life, for me at least, are best kept separate.

The American forum I mentioned had a motto....speak to people online the same way you would speak to them if they were a visitor in your home.

 

[Altair]

I think you are dead right, if you actually know someone personally, you are not going to speak to them like an anonymous stranger.
Thing is on forums, if we post on them long enough, we do get to know that person even if we never meet.

Personally I have no desire to meet up with anyone on a forum, I like some people a lot, but forum life and real life, for me at least, are best kept separate.

The American forum I mentioned had a motto....speak to people online the same way you would speak to them if they were a visitor in your home.

Yes exactly...Iv'e been a member here for what, 3 years or so...Makes zero difference to anyone or ME. I could be a killer. No one would be the wiser.

 

[Saphire]

Yes exactly...Iv'e been a member here for what, 3 years or so...Makes zero difference to anyone or ME. I could be a killer. No one would be the wiser.

Yep....although in time, I do think we get a feel of whether a person is nice or not so nice.
Of course, they could just be a good actor.

 

[Altair]

Yep....although in time, I do think we get a feel of whether a person is nice or not so nice.
Of course, they could just be a good actor.

Who ME....An Actor... ! Blast....she has found me out... !

 

[Saphire]

Does anyone want to say which other forums they have been members of?

I started off on the long defunct 'Daily Mirror' forum.
I think if you could survive on that one you could survive any.

 

[Altair]

Does anyone want to say which other forums they have been members of?

I started off on the long defunct 'Daily Mirror' forum.
I think if you could survive on that one you could survive any.

Avid member of the 'Mail online' ...I sock it to those readers...it's fun sometimes.

 

[Altair]

Does anyone want to say which other forums they have been members of?

I started off on the long defunct 'Daily Mirror' forum.
I think if you could survive on that one you could survive any.

Classic car forums...Where old blokes argue about their rusted MGs. HA..

 

[Saphire]

Avid member of the 'Mail online' ...I sock it to those readers...it's fun sometimes.

Is that not just a 'comments' forum? If I scroll down the Mail newspage, I just see one liners commenting on the news topic.

 

[Altair]

 

[Altair]

Is that not just a 'comments' forum? If I scroll down the Mail newspage, I just see one liners commenting on the news topic.

My tag on there is 'ANON'. Watch out for MY comments in future.

 

[Saphire]

My tag on there is 'ANON'. Watch out for MY comments in future.

I will.

 

[Saphire]

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That's not unlike the car I have at the minute.

 

[ladymuck]

I'm curious to know why forums based in the UK attract so many Americans. Are there so few decent sites in the States? I have just left a UK-based site because there were more Americans than British and there were arguments about the spellings of words and many of the expressions they use are meaningless to us.

 

[El-Tel]

americans like our sites because of the time difference, they get home from work and log in the same time as most of us get in from the pub after last orders and come online