How About a Forum?

By Daniel Miessler on September 17th, 2007: Tagged as Blogging | Debate | Discussion | Forums

Question: would any of you guys participate if I were to put up a forum? I’m considering it under the assumption that many of you would enjoy some middle ground between commenting on someone else’s site (too limited) and having your own site (too much work). A forum provides a nice sweet spot.

Would you guys participate? And if so, what kind of functionality you want from it?

Here are my initial thoughts:

  1. Relatively few categories, if not just one
  2. Focus on your content, not mine
  3. Wide-open discussion (I’ve never censored a post on my site)
  4. Leverage the blog to fuel participation

…that’s about it so far.

Thoughts?

  • http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ David Precious

    Does the net need Yet Another Forum? :)

    I’d imagine most of your blog readers and commenters are here to read your blog posts; if they want to participate in a discussion, it’s likely to be discussing the content of one of your posts, which is what the post comments are for.

  • http://blog.preshweb.co.uk/ David Precious

    Does the net need Yet Another Forum? :)

    I’d imagine most of your blog readers and commenters are here to read your blog posts; if they want to participate in a discussion, it’s likely to be discussing the content of one of your posts, which is what the post comments are for.

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  • sparky

    I am in favour of establishing a forum.

    The categories that interest me are as follows:

    (1) IT security – particularly on topics like hacking and cyberwarfare between the US, China, France and the UK

    (2) Atheism

    (3) Critical Thinking Skills – Catagories on how to develop thinking skills would really interest me!

    (4) Philosopy

    (5) Strategy/warfare principles

  • sparky

    I am in favour of establishing a forum.

    The categories that interest me are as follows:

    (1) IT security – particularly on topics like hacking and cyberwarfare between the US, China, France and the UK

    (2) Atheism

    (3) Critical Thinking Skills – Catagories on how to develop thinking skills would really interest me!

    (4) Philosopy

    (5) Strategy/warfare principles

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    For a number of topics, there are already established forums or the like. Progressive Democratic discussion has DailyKos and MyDD. My campaign is paying for creating a libertarian counterpart of Daily Kos, namely http://TheDailyLiberty.com . Larger fora tend to be more effective.

    But what would your categories be?

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    For a number of topics, there are already established forums or the like. Progressive Democratic discussion has DailyKos and MyDD. My campaign is paying for creating a libertarian counterpart of Daily Kos, namely http://TheDailyLiberty.com . Larger fora tend to be more effective.

    But what would your categories be?

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