What are the disadvantages of forums?

[anjali raghav]

What are the disadvantages of forums?

[laragiles]

Busy online discussion forums may cause information overload. A large volume of messages can be overwhelming and hard to follow, even stress-inducing. This is difficult to argue with given the inexact nature of “large volume”. We have had consultations with up to 2500 comments.

[Katherine Parke]

In my experience I'll say
1. Too many responses could be overwhelming
2. People are mostly spamming
3. Difficult to argue with a large group of people