What is advantages and disadvantages of forum posting ?

[itznehamali]

Hiii....
I am not known about it.What is advantages and disadvantages of forum posting ?

[ajay49560]

Advantages:

•Ability to express and see differing views and opinions on a diverse range of topics.
•Forums create a discussion environment by saving any information posted on a certain topic for others to see at any time, thus people can have high-quality discussions since they would have time to think about and research the topic/comment at hand.
•There is a freedom of speech, and people can write in any form they want (chatting style, diary style, etc.)
•Due to continuous posting, users (e.g. students) increase their writing skills and habits, making them more responsive and knowledgeable of others’ ideas.
•Online communities can be made, no matter how low the traffic volumes may be, since people would often return to the site to see what has happened to certain topics of interest.
•Allows an increase in the traffic of repeated visitors: if many people are interested in the posts and comments, they will continuously come back to the site, making it more popular and active

Disadvantages:

Opens you up to hackers, spammers and predators.
•Creating a successful forum is exhausting because the forum-master must present all the topics for discussion on a continuous basis for months, and the topics have to be interesting so that people start commenting. This means that the forum-master must also make sure that what is being posted is not spam and non-sense (all time-consuming aspects). Otherwise, all of the work and hard efforts will go to waste.
•Administrators can edit people’s posts, and they can ban/mute people if they put some ideas with which they don’t feel comfortable with, even if the ideas may be useful and true to others.
•People may give up posting due to the responses lacking body language, taking much longer to propose than verbal conversations, and being misleading and useless.
•Forums may fail suddenly if one certain contributor stops contributing, making the forum ‘dead’ to new responses and posts.

[Sonika11Mehra]

Forums save information posted on a particular topic for other people to see at any time, this creates a discussion environment. Everything that gets posted gets read again and again. The fact that the discussion isn't real time means that it rarely turns into heated arguments as people are given time to research and consider their comments before replying, this makes for mostly high-quality discussion.

[michaelclarke]

Could be good or could be bad.. bad if you are not around alot and some clients questions go unanswered for days, also not good when you get a client that is upset with you and makes a real bad post towards you though. It can be good if the clients that like your hosting use it and put in good testimonlials

[JanyPunk]

The advantage of forum postings: After getting signature links traffic increases of the website through the anchor text. The targeted anchor text plays the important role in order to rank well in search engine result page.