Online Forum Threads - Do They Solve Problems Or Create Them
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For those who participate in online forum dialogues of a specific industry sub-sector or topic, often they find a few disruptors. The disruptor does not care about the subject or if they do their need to spew hate into the arena trumps their need to "accomplish anything" or solve any problem. In fact, they believe and will even tell you after a long thread that nothing was learned or accomplished.
Interestingly, enough, it is amazing how many times I have read such statements from a defeated detractor debater who was found out and crushed into oblivion by other forum users. Apparently, their game playing tactics drowned any of their hateful rhetoric. The fact is that they did not learn anything at all, while on the other hand several of the others did. Why is this? It is because humans see what they want to see and stick to linear thought. This is the exact scenario of what we say when we talk about people who cannot think outside the box.
Our Online Think Tank was asked recently about Blog and Forum communication and specifically Online Forum Threads; Do They Solve Problems or Create Them. Much appears to depend on the types of folks who use the forum and their personality traits. If the detractor is more worried about his own ego than in listening to the comments, he cannot learn anything. Yet he might offer something if you can read thru his miserable trash talk and debris. Even detractors can come up with interesting things, but generally, they simply show us that they are the root of their own personal issues.
L. Winslow is an Economic Advisor to the Online Think Tank, a Futurist and retired entreprenuer http://www.worldthinktank.net . Currently he is planning a bicycle ride across the US to raise money for charity and is sponsored by http://www.Calling-Plans.com and all the proceeds will go to various charities who sign up.
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