Community - The Truth

[grimms]

When I hear the phrase, 'I want to join because of the community', it does make me laugh...

In the broadest sense, a community is a collection of people (village, town, country, site etc.).

A village is a community, as is a town. The bigger the community, the more segmented it can become.

Also, a community can have other boundaries. In Swindon town, we have the Scottish community, the Irish community, the Chinese community and other such divisions. It's a bit like the various clubs on FSC.

Needless to say, a man of Christian upbringing would probably feel uncomfortable being in a Muslim community, and vice versa. Thankfully, we do have communities that have various mixes in them, which provides variation.

Even with the simple communities offered by forums, it is not everyone's cup of tea. Why does someone feel at home at one forum, yet not at another? What is the deciding factor whether someone becomes involved in a community or not?


It's very much like makes of cars. Some people prefer Fords, some prefer Mercedes, some prefer BMWs, some prefer Volvo, etc., etc. How do you measure choice?

I love the FST forums, and the banter that goes on here (not all is healthy). I know many here, and at other sites, who I would call quality acquaintances (people I virtually trust). There are some here I would invite without a second thought to a tracker community.

I feel at home at FST, as I do at several other places. Yet there are other places I don't feel at home at. How do I justify my feelings? I can't...

To summarise, stereotyping communities as communities, is foolish. Just because someone hears that XXX has a good community does not necessarily mean that they will fit it. It may not be their cup of tea...

Very well put. I like your perspective on that. Interesting read. Thanks.

xtremesystems

Whats the site about. Is it for pc gaming? Or computers? Sounds like a forum i may want to join.

[kyrcer]

Whats the site about. Is it for pc gaming? Or computers? Sounds like a forum i may want to join.

Realy you don't know ?

This is the most popular o/c forum in the world.

[BurntBlue]

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Smaller the group better the community.[/quote]

I'm a part of a couple great smaller communities and love em, but I guess they are also more niche communities with a fairly specific interest that also make em great It's cool to talk to people from around the world with the same basic interests. Love em

[dinko]

some already said -community not cup of all , if some 1 need solution he post - get feed back from other users - he says happy & he having gr8 community \ he gets his desired request from there - he further happy , if he don't get such @ other place he says that place sucks .

but out of this community -we also have some life,work, family ,studies etc , isn't it

[Dark Archon]

xtremesystems

thanks for the name

[pandabear]

One thing i have always wonder is how people keep up with so many communities. I have tried to follow 4 communities (SCL. SCT, FTN, FST), via forums and irc and it was near impossible keeping up I mean at the moment i try to follow ftn and fst, and with work or going anywhere, i end up falling far behind these forums, so i just end up clicking catch up when i haven't read half the stuff i wanted too.

[krunktastic]

One thing i have always wonder is how people keep up with so many communities. I have tried to follow 4 communities (SCL. SCT, FTN, FST), via forums and irc and it was near impossible keeping up I mean at the moment i try to follow ftn and fst, and with work or going anywhere, i end up falling far behind these forums, so i just end up clicking catch up when i haven't read half the stuff i wanted too.

Is the community at ScL really all it's cracked up to be? It seems to me, from the outside, that a beginning site would have a struggling community, much less an active one.

[grimms]

Is the community at ScL really all it's cracked up to be? It seems to me, from the outside, that a beginning site would have a struggling community, much less an active one.

Scl is a great tracker and has a thriving community. Very happy to be there.

[pandabear]

One thing i have always wonder is how people keep up with so many communities. I have tried to follow 4 communities (SCL. SCT, FTN, FST), via forums and irc and it was near impossible keeping up I mean at the moment i try to follow ftn and fst, and with work or going anywhere, i end up falling far behind these forums, so i just end up clicking catch up when i haven't read half the stuff i wanted too.

Is the community at ScL really all it's cracked up to be? It seems to me, from the outside, that a beginning site would have a struggling community, much less an active one.

Well the forums aren't for me. They don't exactly sturggle, as their is a solid userbase, who are active in the forums. But more the topics of the forums are quite dull for me. They are threads where you can basically place a few lines post, and your done with the thread. There seems a lack of real discussion, with a lot of the topics being shallow things like "what colour car do you have?" etc. However i can't say i have given it a really goood go, as i was already entwined in the ftn community and was starting to become a part of fst, when i got invited to scl. However i am sure the threads content will slowly improve as people become more and more familiar with each other. Also i told this to a friend of mine, who invited me to the site and is staff there, and he says its something wrong on my side, since everyoneelse loves it. So its case in point of not going after a site for community, as it won't always be your cup of tea, as TheFoX puts it.

[Detale]

OK time for a biggie:

Nobody asks about me when I'm gone a few days

Thats cause you never F*ckin LEAVE!!!

yes, community is nice, it helps people feel more secure i guess, but why is this a necessary thread again?

That's an odd question...why is any thread necessary? why are there forums at all...to discuss ideas

As to the OP I have to disagree. I've found that most of the forums on "top level" trackers are pretty good. There are two in particular that I really enjoy and find to be very welcoming. Another that a lot of people love to beg for I don't find I have much in common with the posters...mainly because the maturity level is lacking, however the content on that tracker more then makes up for it so I still love it


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I would agree that it's getting pretty annoying hearing community as an excuse for asking for a tracker. While community may be important all these collectors trying to extend their e-penis are making me sick

Tip one if you truly cared about community you'd have mates to invite you and you wouldn't need to ask on a public forum.

Tip two if you have trouble communicating it's pretty obvious you're full of shit. If you can't make sensible posts how are you ever going to get along on community based trackers

Tip three THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME CONTENT

First off you're a HOMO Sear, but have a good point. RE: Why is this thread necessary?" UH because thats what we do here, make threads and share ideas and opinions. IE

Reasons To Register
You can post questions, answer some, and be part of the community

I find there is no ryme or reason to tracker forums, I think it all circumstantial As in life sometimes you fit in other times you don't.

As fot the "Community" excuse and I would say 99% of the time thats exactly what it is. I have been here for a wee bit and in my time here I have seen trends of things happen Like the whole "anti trader" movement. It has become trendy to be an anti trader and more recently the whole "I hear good things about the community" Well then!? get an invite from one of these people why don't cha? My problem isn't with traders or anti traders Staff or members, My problem is with people who are full of 5hit. If you want it for the content thats ok too as someone up there^ said TL has good content but the community ain't the greatest. Thats OK no one is good at everything but be honest about it. So it also makes me sick but for different reasons.

Also that image of sear and the goat burned into my brain

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A quick review of anyones post history here gives you a good idea of whether they are a community person or a collector it even shows you the percentage of posts in which section you are most active in so sometimes you don't even need to review the post history.

This is prob one of the best pieces of advice here. To the pneubs please remember this and try and do your best to follow it!

I find the forums on all those level 10 sites great, It's more a family than some randoms.

If you were to go offline for a few days, people would notice and ask how you've been etc.

And that is exactly the main problem

If you're a "random" in there (which we -all- have been one time), you're not too welcome.. I want to join a community when they don't look at nicks and for how many weeks you've been a member..

There are some great communities out there, but unfortunately there are too many "who the fuck are you to talk?"-communities to "noobs"..

-Vidde =)

Firstly Who the Fuck are you to talk!!!! JK

As someone said welcome to FST and thats why when I see someone picking on the new guy, because it does happen too I try and explain that we we ALL at one point the new guy. To the VETS you guys should do this too

When I hear the phrase, 'I want to join because of the community', it does make me laugh...

In the broadest sense, a community is a collection of people (village, town, country, site etc.).

A village is a community, as is a town. The bigger the community, the more segmented it can become.

Also, a community can have other boundaries. In Swindon town, we have the Scottish community, the Irish community, the Chinese community and other such divisions. It's a bit like the various clubs on FSC.

Needless to say, a man of Christian upbringing would probably feel uncomfortable being in a Muslim community, and vice versa. Thankfully, we do have communities that have various mixes in them, which provides variation.

Even with the simple communities offered by forums, it is not everyone's cup of tea. Why does someone feel at home at one forum, yet not at another? What is the deciding factor whether someone becomes involved in a community or not?


It's very much like makes of cars. Some people prefer Fords, some prefer Mercedes, some prefer BMWs, some prefer Volvo, etc., etc. How do you measure choice?

I love the FST forums, and the banter that goes on here (not all is healthy). I know many here, and at other sites, who I would call quality acquaintances (people I virtually trust). There are some here I would invite without a second thought to a tracker community.

I feel at home at FST, as I do at several other places. Yet there are other places I don't feel at home at. How do I justify my feelings? I can't...

To summarise, stereotyping communities as communities, is foolish. Just because someone hears that XXX has a good community does not necessarily mean that they will fit it. It may not be their cup of tea...

Damn True!!.

I am born and raised in Brooklyn NYC so needless to say I come from one of the largest and most diverse Communities in the world.
I also have to mention I lived in Los Angeles for 5-6 years

The differences are amazing NY has a larger community but they are way more civil to one and other especially after 9/11 the mood of everyone was changed unbelievably and everyone sticks together on a grand scale as "New Yorkers"

Now LA a smaller community they have that Gang stuff there, there are no gangs like that here and LA has way less diversity. So in short ( cause the wife is rushing me off the computer)I think that it's more the type of people rather than community size thats important


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