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Doesn't the same thing happen with old school forums? There are some avatars I remember (I don't remember their user names) on certain product's forums who I kn
by squeaky-clean 3y ago
Doesn't the same thing happen with old school forums? There are some avatars I remember (I don't remember their user names) on certain product's forums who I know I can't trust, and they show up in every third thread I find on Google. At least they never change their avatar, if they did I might fall for their BS again.
Also IMO, on forums that show a user's response count, anyone with several thousand responses should be ignored unless their account is over a decade old. They tend to spend more time on the forums than actually using the thing the forum is based on.
- heavyset_go 3y agoI feel like it's different on more asynchronous mediums than just chats. Forums could have thousands of personalities and never really feel dominated by any of them, but IRC channels became dominated by a relatively small percentage of regular users.
- cgriswald 3y agoForums can also be small. Regardless of size, one or a cadre of like-minded or easily manipulated folks can dominate a forum. I think the major difference between forums and Discord/IRC is that the conversations are more likely to be seen on the forums because they’re more persistent and can be more easily referenced to see the entire picture. That’s certainly not impossible in IRC but it’s more work and less accessible to the less technically inclined.