Have you ever had good or bad experience on smaller forum communities?

[LightningMana 146]

I'm currently a member of a older generation mlp forum since 2012, and have had a very relaxing, awesome experience there. It's kind of slow, but it's active enough to keep going and has very neutral staff members that are caring and reasonable people. 

[kelseymarie805 301]

I was on a sit once that had a forum within and I decided to check the forums out one day and well, I got addicted to them even though it was a bad experience. I really wasn't crazy about them. People there (or at least they used to) break the rules and get away with it, and there's not much moderation from what I know. It's not a good forum imo.

 

But, I've had a great experience here (though that's not what we're talking about)

[Live Forever 316]

Back in 2013, I was a part of the Toontown Central Forums community (before MMO Central began), and I got perma-banned for no reason I know. All it said was trolling. What did I do? The only posts I had done for the past two days were on a topic about my cat dying.

[Flutter's lover <3 8,205]

I've been on several forums. Some of which I'm still active on. I've never had any bad experiences on them.

 

Heck, one of the big forums I'm on http://www.pinkbike.com/u/debonis/ Sponsors events and stuff. I've gotten a little flack for being a brony,but it's just for fun. Nothing to take serious. They're actually very tolerable, and some even think it's kinda cool. It's a great place filled with limitless knowledge.

 

Another forum I'm on, is actually a provincial furry forum, I also happen to be staff on. I'm the only brony mod they have. But We mostly know each other, it's a bit of a tight knit community. We've all met each other at conventions or meets. Though a couple mods/admins absolutely despise MLP. 

 

All my other forums I've been on? I've never had a single bad experience.

[Ziggy + Angel + Rain 11,302]

I'm also active on another, significantly smaller forum.  It, too, is pony-related.  The atmosphere / environment there is very welcoming and accepting.  There are things I can get over there that I don't get here.  I mean, despite how awesome a place this is; particularly for a larger forum.

 

Some experience with another large-ish forum, years ago...  That sucked.  The mods sucked.  The members sucked.  I'm feeling quite eloquent at the moment lol.  Everything was "suck." xD

 

And some experience with the teeniest, tiniest, most random forum that vanished not long after it arrived.  That one was okay.  There were some flash games to play there, and I felt the big fish in a little pond when I posted my better-than-everyone-else's Donkey Kong score.  Uh huh.

[Discordian 6,015]

I have a tendency to stick around smaller forums and I've always had an easier time there. When you know how everyone is because there's such a small number of active users it's easier to react to them.

 

This goes for both good and bad times. I've had both. On one forum I was condemned for being a brony as well as some other things that got me accused and insulted worse than anything I've ever experienced. I've also had an amazing forum experience where everyone got along and even if there were differing opinions anything that was said about it was just jocular ribbing and never meant to hurt anyone.

 

In the end, I prefer smaller forums. Knowing everyone helps with the conversation and lessens the chance of random asshats ruining all the fun. I've run into a good number of people I hate to associate with on bigger forums like this one.

Edited July 17, 2014 by Discordian

[Minepro 107]

I am a part of 3 forums other than this one, lead mod on one, and friends with many, many members.

 

The smallest community I know is Mineboard: the building game community. Over the years there, I have befriended the admins and owner, became lead mod, chief professional marketer and branding officer and had an awesome time doing it. Been a part since 2012, and before on mcmines back in 2011. There's also where my main username originated. MCminer came from mcmines' forum name and the last part came from the year I joined. Now I use it everywhere in order to promote Mineboard and my comic.

[Arylett Charnoa 4,919]

I prefer smaller forums because then, it's actually a community rather than being drowned out in a sea of faces and the 90% of everything is crap rule. Bigger forums tend to have lower quality due to that, if they're not moderated appropriately. I've been to a few that aren't and don't have enough mods to deal with the influx of material. 

 

Of course, I've mostly had BAD experiences on forums in general. Every time I find a nice place to settle in, something stupid happens and it all goes bad.

 

There's one particular smaller forum I can remember where many of the mods and senior members absolutely loathed me for being too perky and liked to snark about me and my group of friends behind my back. It got so far that one of them tried to make fun of me sarcastically in public, thinking I was too stupid to get it. 

 

Then there's another one I actually tried to build and be a part of, but it turned out that the primary admin of it was... well, far too crazy, disorganized, and chaotic to work with and started making many choices I found to be questionable.

 

Of course, there is also the fact that most smaller forums today are pretty much flat-out dead and not active enough to foster interesting discussion from what I've experienced. Every time I go to one that is less sizable than one of these monster forums, my interest just fizzles out and dies because barely anyone posts. 

 

Basically, I'm not sure why I still bother. I've pretty much just about had it with forums all together for the most part. Only reason I'm still here is to satiate my boredom and loneliness.

 

Perhaps one day though, I'll have a really good experience by creating my own.

Edited July 18, 2014 by Shion Uzuki

[galaxysquid 2,122]

I was part of an Adventure Time forum for like... a week. XD

 

This is the only forum I have ever loved! :3

Edited July 18, 2014 by ~PrincessOfWub~