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Forum resources worth posting about
July 25, 2008
Forum resources worth posting about July 25, 2008
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FAQ
What is Forum Point?Forum Point serves the needs of forum owners and forum users with software, scripts, articles, graphics, web hosts, and other discussion forum resources. What is a forum?In ancient Rome, forums were community gathering places within the city where trade and judicial activities took place. Through modern eyes, a forum might seem like a combination mall/farmers market/courthouse. The forums of antiquity were not just meeting places where physical goods or currency were exchanged, but centers of great interactivity and discussion. The word, forum, has come to mean a public meeting place for open discussion. Now forum can mean simply a medium for expressing ideas. The stone columns and porticos of antiquity have been replaced by virtual ones. The human desire to exchange ideas has remained. It's not enough to state that Internet discussion forums allow visitors to leave messages on topics of interest. These messages can be followed up, clarified, and debated infinitely as forum members develop their unique online identities. Discussion forums have become the community gathering places of today. Discussion forums are also called bulletin boards, message boards, discussion boards, chat boards, discussion groups, discussion servers, and online forums. Most discussion forums are free to use, but require registration and agreement to the terms of service. To get another perspective on the definition and nature of Internet discussion forums, try the Internet Forum area of WikiPedia, the free encyclopedia. Why doesn't Forum Point have a discussion forum?There are many excellent Internet discussion forums covering vast numbers of topics. There and very few, if any, forum resource web sites. Forum Point is dedicated to researching and providing the best forum information and content for forum owners and forum users. We want to serve, not compete with forums. What is the plural of the word, forum?The proper plural of forum is fora. For the most part, the anglicized forums has
replaced the Latin based fora in modern English usage. An interesting
discussion of the proper use of the word occurs in
this forum thread from Brights' Movement Forums. Can I submit my article, tutorial, or graphic for publication at Forum Point?
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