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J-Man
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Topic: What type of forum do you prefer?? Posted: February 22 2009 at 16:10 |
This might seem kind of pointless, but I'm very curious about this topic. I was on Gamespot.com once, and there were over 2000 members online. In my mind that just gets out of hand, and you never feel like you know anyone on the forums. That is why I love PA so much! ![Clap Clap](smileys/smiley32.gif) So do you prefer small or larger forums?
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Jozef
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 22:50 |
10 to 50.
It doesn't bother me either way though.
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Pnoom!
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Posted: February 22 2009 at 23:00 |
0-10, preferably all STC members.
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Dean
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 02:29 |
^ But that already exists - it's called MSN
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 02:56 |
One forum I go on, Sevenstring.org, regularly has over 150 people online, but has at times had over 1000 people on there. The only people that don't make friends there, are idiots. Anyone with half a brain can figure out how to make contacts and friends by posting the right stuff and making the PMs to the right people. I've only been there since last September, but already found people that were willing to give me discounts on things they had for sale, even had guys invite me to come and jam with them (although due to distance I could never make it). Despite it's massive size, it's extremely well moderated too, which is a massive plus, and all the mods there are extremely friendly, down to earth guys. I spent a fair amount of time there, possible more than I do PA (although I post way less at SS.org though) and I tend to get all my music news relating to metal and guitar news from there. An extremely supportive forum board and community, I love it.
The other forum board I spent a fair amount of time on, is Seymourduncan.com/forums, but I found making friends there not as easy despite having been there since February 2008, but I made a few. I've only got about 1500 posts there, so again, I don't post a heck of a lot there, but I've learn a sh*t ton about guitars just from going there over the last 12 months. It tends to average 25-50 online members at once, so it's not too chaotic.
Really, those 2 and PA are the only ones I devote regular time to.
I used to go to the Dreamtheaterforum.org forum board, but I stopped logging in after about one week, and every now and then, maybe once a month, I lurk to remind myself why it's such a boring place and the fanboys ruined the experience completely. Pretty big numbers there, but it's easy to feel alienated there.
I go to the Ibanez guitar forum from time to time, I've maybe posted 90 in the last 12 months, but you rarely seem to get more than 5 people online at once. I lurk a few other forum boards, maybe for half an hour at most per day, but never felt the need to register and post on them.
I may as well just vote over 1000, since I think it makes for something cool. Or something like that.
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Petrovsk Mizinski
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 02:59 |
Dean wrote:
^ But that already exists - it's called MSN ![Tongue Tongue](https://www.progarchives.com/forum/smileys/smiley17.gif) |
The contact between STC members, instant messaging wise, are not quite as widely used as you'd suspect. Over half, or more of the guys use AIM, so I actually only have one member of STC on my MSN, the rest if I want to talk to them, is via the thread in PA, because I can't get AIM to work anyway, plus it's too much of a hassle to use two instant messaging programs at once.
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Dean
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 03:11 |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 05:55 |
Penthouse
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Vompatti
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 06:01 |
As long as there are a couple of guys active in "Just for Fun", I'm fine.
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TheCaptain
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 07:35 |
Vompatti wrote:
As long as there are a couple of guys active in "Just for Fun", I'm fine.
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Agreed. PA is the only online forum I have been a part of and it suits me just fine.
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Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.
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micky
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 08:04 |
the more the merrier... I only post on one other forum... and it sucks that not many hang out there.
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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Raff
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 08:10 |
Well, perhaps 2,000 online at the same time is a bit too many... I am not a big fan of large groups of people in real life, and that applies to virtual life too. So, I'd say that between 100 and 200 would be just fine for me.
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stonebeard
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 08:18 |
Doesn't really matter. Only thing that does is minimizing the time new members spend being n00bs, and creating the same threads over and over again.
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Mikerinos
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 10:11 |
I don't really post on any forms anymore, but I think 10-100 is a good number. Nothing too small so that it seems as if no discussion was ever happening, but nothing outrageously large where I feel like everyone is a stranger.
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Mr ProgFreak
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 10:41 |
I definitely prefer a small, but consistent group of people ... I don't like huge forums at all.
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J-Man
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 16:26 |
Mr ProgFreak wrote:
I definitely prefer a small, but consistent group of people ... I don't like huge forums at all.
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Yeah, same here.
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J-Man
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 16:41 |
micky wrote:
the more the merrier... I only post on one other forum... and it sucks that not many hang out there.
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True, but sometimes less is more. Huge forums can get really annoying (and so can small ones).
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Philéas
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 18:20 |
Really it all depends on the people and what kind of forum it is. But generally 10-50.
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MovingPictures07
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Posted: February 23 2009 at 18:22 |
Mikerinos wrote:
I don't really post on any forms anymore, but I think 10-100 is a good number. Nothing too small so that it seems as if no discussion was ever happening, but nothing outrageously large where I feel like everyone is a stranger.
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That summarizes my views quite nicely.
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J-Man
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