Four Things I've Learnt from Fourms.

By Link the Writer · Oct 22, 2010 · ·
  1. I'm starting to learn more about the fourms I'm on in the last month than I have in the last six years I've been posting in fourms.

    So, just for amusement (and info if you're curious), here are the four things I've learnt from the fourms:

    #1- Avoid the political sections at all costs. 95% of the time, it's filled with morons who act like they're so knowledgeable about an issue and will argue relentlessly. Expect to see insults hurdled left and right like monkey crap as if the "be nice" rule read, "Feel free to insult, belittle, demean and bully everyone you disagree with as much as you want!" You'll leave insulted, upset, and angry at the "idiots who just don't get it". Unless you want to feel this way every day, stay out!! There is an entire rest of the fourm you can explore.

    #2- Ignore Button is your friend. If you're harrassed by a member who just won't listen to you, just put the user on ignore. If they couldn't be reasoned with the first time, what makes you think they'd be reasoned with the tenth or twentieth time? They're nothing more than the internet version of a school yard bully, but this time, you can choose not to have to devote your precious time with them.

    #3- The Country icon is a lie. The little flag icons that indicate from which nation a member hails from is just as truthful as the gender and age. You all know me as a twenty-one year old man from Alabama. This is true. I could, however, have signed up pretending I was a fourteen-year-old boy from Moscow, Russia.

    #4- Internet identiy could be different from real life counterpart. For the most part, people on the fourms act like how they would if they were meeting you face to face. However, there are those who like to have a seperate identity, so a shy, not-so-very-tough person might develop an energetic, robust, tough personality on the fourm. And if you're curious about my personality, what you see in my posts is generally what I am in real life, a shy, nice, eccentric person.

Comments

  1. Torana
    Never a truer word been said there.
  2. Taylee91
    I hope I come off the way I am in real life. I wouldn't want to be someone I'm really not here on WF :D
  3. w176
    Four things i learned from forums.

    1. They are great for couch surfing. You get places all over the country and all over the world you could crash, or just enjoy a cup of tea with or get a guided tour of the city from.

    2. You really get to know the people, but not their annoying IRL habits. On the other hand you get to know their awesome real life habits as well.

    3. People don't shy away from discussions the same way, and take time and effort to present their world view. You can have weeks long fascinating discussion on a mature level on everything from gender roles to impressionistic agendas. Even if half the people are trolls their troll post say a lot about our society if you study them closely.

    4. You always have an expert at hand. Someone on a forum is always a doctor or a nurse, electrician, cook, computer wizard or historian. Or someone who lives in a desert climate, have had cancer, knows how to best house train a ferret or soothing else of immense value. Loads of people that can guide you and offer you info and advice on anything.
  4. Nonnie
    I think the one thing I've learned from foruming is that no one will ever think they're wrong so long as they can hide behind a screen, the system will always be abused every once in awhile and mods can be the devil in an instant.

    That's more than one thing, but still, on forums overall, that's the way things seem to trend. Those are just negatives though, there are nice things too. Having a sort of "extended family" and things of that sort. Whatever.
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