There's a big difference between forums where a few hundred to maybe 1000 people will see your content and social media platforms that "bubble up" popular conte

There's a big difference between forums where a few hundred to maybe 1000 people will see your content and social media platforms that "bubble up" popular content so that millions of people see it: Only loud mouths get the microphone in social media and calm "normal people" get the microphone in smaller forums. Also forums are perfect for simple things like "Which nails do you recommend for siding: x or y?" You can't really get that answered in Twitter. I mean I get that people ask the same thing or one of the Stack Exchange sites - but there's no sense of "community" so instead of trusting Awesome Bob who's a veteran builder of 15 years your simply trusting the answer with the most upvotes. I mean I get it - that's the platform that gets us away from trusting AwesomeBob forever. But that also takes away that "cohesive" single source of truth that we're looking for in the big picture (building a home for this example) where AwesomeBob recommends a series of things that works together. In the stack exchange model you're just getting the top recommended things for each category but it's also wrong for different areas. Like the kind of siding we'd use in California may not be appropriate in other areas of the country (OK bad example - everyone should use James Hardie or LP Smart Side).