First Forum Experience

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I was over at Server Matirx forum and I was thinking about the Lounge area and I had to laugh about something.

They were actually my first ever forum that I actually read everyday and posted one. But the funny thing is I waited 2 whole months at least before I even clicked on the Lounge link of the forum because at the time it said this is the place for off topic and getting to know one another, I didn't want to know anyone and I didn't want to read anything that wasn't technical, what a noob, most Forums offer more valuable information in the Lounge area than any other area sometimes.

Then it took me forever to get brave enought to post on a forum and look at me now, non stop chatter.

I would be curious to know if you all had a first experience with a forum, fear of first post etc.
 
I am a frequent forum user for webhostingtalk.com and dell's support forum. I have never had a problem posting on the board... even if it is not technical. I think it is important to develope some sort of a personal relationship with other members... it makes things funner (I know thats not a word) while surfing the posts.

I havent used WHT in a long time though. I do not like most of the topics there these days. I still post on DELL's support site, just because I think it is funny to prove DELLs support reps wrong when people ask them technical questions.
 
I still post on DELL's support site, just because I think it is funny to prove DELLs support reps wrong when people ask them technical questions.
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:lol:

Have to laugh at that ;)

I don't have a problem with posting on forums, sometimes I don't want to join a forum if the community isn't very welcoming to new members, quite a lot are very tough on newbies and it doesn't make you want to post and be part of the forum
 
My first forum posting was in 1996, the official site for a TV show. I haven't had all that much trouble posting in other various forums, since my first experience was anything but dignified :D

I tend to hit the "View new posts" link and browse / read / respond that way, rather than hit any single subforum. The exception will be when I first find a forum, and I'll spend hours reading through the older posts.
 
The first forum I ever devoted loads of time to was the 3dgamemaker forum (gooooogle will know) and the cliksoft forum. I had posted on other occasionally but not as much as those two.
 
I wonder if another reason for my jumping into forums relatively quickly / easily was because I used USENet when in college? To me, the first forums I wandered onto were just like USENet with a colored background.
 
Forums are fun. You meet so many people from different places of the world. I just love it. The diversity and the community spirit can really help you to gain something from a forum and also to help others. Forums also help me to relax and to recover from a hard day.

Chris
 
Well,

I just got the Forum mania, thanks to WebHostingTalk ... If you refresh the page you will get a reply in less than 10 Mins if it is a general post that most of them read it :D
 
If you refresh the page you will get a reply in less than 10 Mins if it is a general post that most of them read it :D [/B]
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You know Matrix that brings up a good point. For example this forum and a couple others are very good because just about every post has an answer given.

That is a pet peeve of mine with cpanel.net. I read that forum because I use cpanel and nothing makes me madder than going to that forum looking for answers so you do a search and you pull up 30 topics and out if that 30 maybe 25 have an answer and a lot of the time the answer is something stupid and doesn't answer the question at all, they are supposed to be the experts on cpanel. Now I don't go there looking for answers on how to cook dinner so I wouldn't expect a reply to that, but when you can't find an answer at the forum the provides the software it is a sad day for all.
 
That is a pet peeve of mine with cpanel.net. I read that forum because I use cpanel and nothing makes me madder than going to that forum looking for answers so you do a search and you pull up 30 topics and out if that 30 maybe 25 have an answer and a lot of the time the answer is something stupid and doesn't answer the question at all, they are supposed to be the experts on cpanel. Now I don't go there looking for answers on how to cook dinner so I wouldn't expect a reply to that, but when you can't find an answer at the forum the provides the software it is a sad day for all.
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Thats something I notice a lot on the cpanel forums.
I search for a poblem and find a load of threads, all with the same problem. Most either don't have replies or the ones that do have replies are just others asking if anyone knows the answer.

Takes a good while to find the answer to a problem on there, that is if youcan even find an answer hehe.

Hopefully all questions here have an answer that help solve the problem ;)
I know if I see any that don't have an answer I either try help from what I know or look around for an answer
 
I've noticed that about the cpanel.net forums. I didn't really know why that was - I assumed that it was happening because people were getting their questions answered at the other hosting forums.

It irritates me, though, because I use CPanel with a custom skin (mostly for the verbiage - I wanted to make it more clear) and looking for help was a royal pain. I don't know that an indirect CPanel licensee can get a changelog every time they update, and I would periodically have problems with the various CPanel skin providers not updating for a length of time. Ironically, I didn't need their skins updated - I just needed to know what changed so that I could update mine.

I was fortunate in that the first forums I visited were pretty active, pretty friendly, and fairly inclusive. Not to mention I'd already had some experience with USENet.

The first hosting forum I was on, was as a customer. It wasn't horrid, it wasn't great - it just was. Cpanel's customer forums are the worst customer forums I've visited or tried to use, and that's only because of the huge lag times in answers. I don't know if that's because they don't have many staffers who have time to visit those forums, or if they originally set them up hoping that their customers would take care of each others' problems without any action on their part. (Doesn't always work too well.)
 
The mark of a good forum is where you can look around and in the older topics see that they have good replies. If I find a forum, and all the new posts have 0 replies, and the older ones either have 0 or "me too" replies, its not even worth the registration
 
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