But where do you find these people? (apart from on here)Mature people
And the people who do both, like most of my members? I'd say there is a lot of immaturity on social media to be sure, but I don't think preferring social media over forum software or vice versa is necessarily a good indicator of maturity.Mature people will prefer forums over social media.
Be careful what you wish for! LOL!We need a UN resolution banning social networks, that would save us!
But for sure trolls and misinformation would move on the forums, they don't care about the support what they want is to spread their troll content or fake-news!
Funnily enough, a lot of people on my new forum came from FB. Apparently some people are getting sick of it - and the aggro. Social media doesn't provide the community aspect in the same way IMO. However it's noticeable the ones that have been used to social media but they soon get to enjoy the forum.But where do you find these people? (apart from on here)
They are not. This thread is from 2013 and we're still kickin'I don't think forums are dead
Forums may be dead, but this thread is undead, eh.This thread is from 2013 and we're still kickin
What concerns me is the number of forums run by big companies for profit, who own quite a few forums on various different topics. Users don't always realise this. The tone of some of those is noticeably different as again IMO, without naming names, the ethos isn't there behind the forum topic - it is purely a money maker and there is lack of moderation and unpleasantness at times.
Very nice. Is that one of Russ's styles? Curious to know which Dragonbyte addons you useI believe forums went through a dry spell and are coming back, new and improved. This is a forum that is extremely active today: https://reef2reef.com.
Interesting. Someone offered to buy Wondercafe2 years ago. Since I technically don't own it but operate it on behalf of the community, I politely blew them off. Wonder if it was them (we are Canadian-based).Most of the forums where I'm a member are owned by the same big company (located in Canada).
The typical modus operandi would be they aggressively monetise the forum, but the existing mods, specific rules and mod policy stays. Why would they get too involved as their staff has to be paid whereas most forum mods are unpaid. Free workers.Yep. Most of the forums where I'm a member are owned by the same big company (located in Canada). They find successful forums and buy them up. There is no "lack" of moderation on any of the ones where I'm a member. In fact, I feel most of them are over-moderated. Different perspectives, I guess.
I don't know. It's not my forum. Just a member there.Very nice. Is that one of Russ's styles? Curious to know which Dragonbyte addons you use
I do have to defend them a little here.Facebook groups are just full of foolish people who really are immature plebs.
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