I thought because I quite often go on the Lost forum to see whats being discussed, I may as well use this forum as my example.
The url for this forum is: http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=mb&cat=33026
In the Lost forum, are discussions about peoples theories of what is going to happen or what is happening on Lost. People sometimes also post spoilers of info they have found out about what is to come on the particular season in question of Lost. However, I think that these posts might now be banned from being published on the forum because of something the writters said or did. If you went onto this forum and was to read a post and you had no prior knowledge of Lost or you hadn't seen the show, then you wouldn't really understand what was being said and some of the things being discussed really wouldn't mean anything to you. It would however make sense to a group of Lost fans because this is a forum especially for them, not just general chit chat.
A way in which people in the forum present themselves as a Lost fan to the other fans in the forum is by their username. The majority of the people posting in this forum have names related to the show itself or characters within the show. For example 'Sayidlover' and 'DriveshaftAreFab'.
The form of interaction taking place is done in the form of threads. If somebody wants to reply to somebodies elses post then they click on the discussion topic and can read what other people have replied saying and then they can add their own post to the thread. Threads can become rather long in the Lost forum as people are costantly replying to the discussion topics posted and then this sets off other postees ideas and thoughts.
The forum is set up in a way that influences people to reply to posts and it is easy to use because there are headers at the top of the forum which clearly say 'Topics', 'Posted By', 'Replies', 'Views' and 'Last post', all of which enable a quick and easy way of seeing if say your posted topic has a new reply, or if a topic has a lot of replies it might be of interest to the other forum users because this could suggest that it was a good topic starter.
Emily x
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What do you think about the producers of the show being able to influence and indeed censor the dcommunications of the general public. If this were a conversation IRL then who could claim to have jurisdiction over it? Is this the democracy of the internet?
i think i'm just repeating what sue has just said but it's interesting how they are censoring the forum by disallowing 'spoiler' posts. do you think that's a good idea as a user of the forum? xx
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/02/392191.html
on a larger scale of censorship theres this article which is from the news site that the week 5 reading is about. it's pretty cool so hope you enjoy :D
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