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Originally Posted by deflinus
this board is just like every other board out there on the internet. just different names
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I don't know that that's true.
I post on a friend's board, mostly because of him, where most of the people are older than me and really into classic rock and general aging hippie concerns. I get kind of a kick out of challenging them with the sort of stuff I'm into, and actually many of them are nice folks. It is
nothing like this board whatsoever, though. The politics had to be removed to a separate forum from the main board there too, because there are just as many right wing extremists as leftist and their arguments get really nasty (though they still go see Neil Young together and have barbeques, it's mostly a Seattle crowd).
My wife posted for quite a while on a "March Expecting" board when she was pregnant and some time after. Not a lot like this one from what I heard her talking about.
The Science Fiction board I admin at has 3-5 regulars who have gotten to know each other really well, and then a steady influx of people who don't really stick around. Unlike this board, there isn't much off topic conversation, though there are quite a few sub-forums for specific areas of SF. Virtually no trolling, even when we have been written about in Boing Boing.