Posted by Gary M '66 on 4/9/2008, 3:14 pm
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mo•nop•o•lize tr.v. mo•nop•o•lized, mo•nop•o•liz•ing, mo•nop•o•liz•es:
1. To dominate by excluding others: monopolized the conversation.
An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user-generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as message boards… such as this WWHS Message Board. The terms "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community.
Registered members of a forum may have additional privileges, such as the ability to edit their previous posts, start new topics. Members also have the ability to send personal messages to each other in plain view of all forum participticipants. Western-style forums place heavy emphasis on identity and user registration. This makes the tone of discussion very different from the more anonymous style boards. The burdens of status and persona encourage both highly formal discourse and close personal relationships, depending on the tone given a forum by its moderators and heaviest users. The permanence of messages on many western-style forums can encourage users to self-moderate so as to not bore other members.
In many forums which have editing allowed they have rules asking people not to make multiple posts, and also use a common plug-in to merge double posts (without an administrator/moderator having to manually having to delete or merge the posts).
Trolls - A troll is a user that repeatedly and intentionally breaches netiquette… Trolls known as gravediggers purposefully post in old and irrelevant threads simply to bring that thread to light again.
