All about Forums

It seems that nowadays 'Forum' has become an 'in' thing. Many societies and clubs are now having their own online forum, which allows their members to communiate and share information together. The advantages of having a forum is definitely aplenty.

The following are some of the forums I have been visiting:

Kangooclub: This forum is so far my favourite. The forum is neatly organised into several sections of diff areas of interests. And within each area of interest is further broken down into more precise topics. For instance, there is a section on 'Modifications of vans', and within this section you have separate topics like 'Car alarm system installations' , 'Van Body kits' and "Available accessory shops" etc. There is also another section on "Maintenance and repairs" where you will find topics like how to take care of ur van and which workshops to go etc.

The members in these forums are very friendly and helpful. They are fast in providing you the latest tips and findings, saving much of your precious time to hunt the information yourself. Furthermore, they share abt the best lobangs around in town and help u to save a great deal. Most importantly, they are very fun loving ppl with lots of craps, jokes and suanning around.

Eurovanclub: This club is supposed to be bigger than the above-mentioned, but the participation volume is not as great. Similarly, the forum is neatly categorised into diff areas of interests, and the topics discussed are relatively helpful. However, the moderators are very strict in this forum and hence, the 'fun' element is lost. Nevertheless, it still serve its purpose as a useful platform for information gathering and sharing.

Sgskates: This forum started off as one of the most promising and happening forum. The traffic volume is extremely great. However, it slowly degenerated in nothing more than a frivolous forum, with lots of nonsensical jokes and yakkings that are not in rhyme with the title of the forum. Little is spoken about skatings (must it be in the first place? I duno). I do not feel i gain much from it so i stop making my postings. Nvtheless, i am sure the friendships built among the members are getting stronger each day.

NUSBS forum: An old forum actually existed few yrs ago, but didnt take off well. A new one just came out recently. I was initially skeptical about it due to the small number of membership in the society. I thought that for a forum to exist, it needs a very large number of active participations from the members. But i soon realise that the membership strength is not the most serious problem. I feel that the main reason why this forum doesn take off well once again is due to the lack of participation from even existing 'active'' members itself. Without the participations and postings from these active and 'seasoned' members, i wonder who else are they expecting to be active in the forum? The newbies are definitely not encouraged to do any postings.

Well, to each his own, we can do watever we like, but at the end of the day, its jus how much we wanna balance between sacrificing ur own interest to help the society VS how much we wanna stick back to our deeply-drilled character/attitude.