crazyboy25 Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) As you can see from my profile, I've been a member of APC for some time, though I've not been active in the last few years. Since I was a teenager I've been a member of a number of forums for a number of different hobbies and I've also been an active user on Reddit and a number of Facebook groups. Despite everything I've learned from all these internet communities they all have different but serious flaws. The single specialty forums like APC tend to have very active helpful users who make significant contributions to the board. But forums are generally geared towards very specific interests and moderation and website quality very vastly between different bbcode boards. Reddit and Facebook groups allow users to create an infinite number of boards allowing for diverse and niche subject matter where lots of interesting discussion goes on. However this anarachic system leads to fragmentation and duplicated groups. Additionally moderation can be very bad, and up votes and likes can incentivize low effort content rather than insightful discussions. I am developing a concept for a new type of online community geared towards facilitating meaningful discussion and useful contribution without the drawbacks of the bbcode forums. It would be very useful if you would take a short survey to help me understand what you like and don't like about the various online communities that you use. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe4oeQLPN0PR-BdmfTR8DA4E0RTBQifqFuOzL5NkYPvsGG-Hw/viewform?usp=sf_link Edited October 10, 2019 by crazyboy25
Arthur Posted October 10, 2019 Posted October 10, 2019 perhaps you should talk privately to Mumbles, who with little help has financed and run this forum for years. You should also be aware that there is a minimum number of active members needed for a forum to succeed -it's hard to start one and the next forum will draw members from this one and probably close both. Remember also that facebook is a giant information collection and selling machine everyone's attitude and politics is sold to anyone wanting data. 1
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