I wouldn't say all. ;)

The ones I have significant experiance with:

Bioware forums? Ask a question and be flamed a noob.
KMC? Ask a humerous question and get the thread locked, and have a warning sent.
Gaia? Way to damn big.
Rocky fans forum? WAAAAY to small.
Pichunter forums? Really nice, but morally bankrupt (no duh, its a porn site forum).

The world of forums is a much bigger place than that. I have personal experience with the following,

RPGForums.net
Nightstar
Keenspot
Keenspace
Kyhm
Strategy First
etc...( where etc = singular forums)

I disagree about long thread. They can have some very interesting drama.

It's impressive for such a big forum with a relatively young average age to be so orderly. I know of a few big forums which are just as good, though they have completely different themes and higher average poster ages.

However, I'd say that no big forum such as IW can compete with the tight atmosphere you get on small, isolated and specialized forums with a very limited (<20) number of active posters.

I like ironworks the best, although i do use others. I use the Dimmu Borgir forums, but all that seems to happen there is you get abuse thrown at you. I also use Dragon's Lair, but that's ickle right now... I'm also a Mod over at HiveTyrant's forum [img]smile.gif[/img] but i don't post so much after my spam-filled first night. So IW remains my fav.

[ 02-20-2005, 08:48 AM: Message edited by: TheGodThatFailed ]

I must be honest and say that while Ironworks is one of the better forums I have visited, it's definitely not my favourite.

This isn't so much a matter of how 'good' a forum is rather than it is a matter of personal preference - I like a certain other forum that is less crowded and lets one speak his mind more freely. ;)

You can speak your mind here as well, as long as there's nothing perverted or racist going on inside your head. :D

IW was my first forum and will always be my home base on the net. I go to other forums and even run one, but this will always be my first. [img]smile.gif[/img]


LOL, well said, Johnny! [img]graemlins/cheers.gif[/img]

I use 2 forums. This and another one called Prestone, but that is a music forum.

Prestone is a lot more... angry. Modded well, but the tolerance is alot higher. Frequent swearing, insults and arguments are allowed, as long as they don't get too cheap or below the belt. (No rascism etc.) It's quite an elitist forum to get into, the unintelligent don't last long before grammer nazi's dive in on them to correct everything they say. People openly dislike each other and it's all honest.

But it's good fun [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]