TU100, My digital Life, Block 3, Part 3, Session 1.2, Discussion forums and newsgroups, Activity 3.

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Feb 062012
 

You are now going to use the Browse Groups facility in Google Groups to find newsgroups about orienteering. Click on ‘Recreation’ in the Category section and then click on ‘Europe’ in the Region section. Next, type orienteering into the Filter box. Click on your results to discover which groups are open to everyone to make postings, and which are open only to members.

Sierra Ski Orienteering is a group open to anyone, where only members can add posts.

Welsh Orienteering Association is a group open to all, and only members can add posts.

Free UK Sport Orienteering is a usenet style group.

TU100, My digital Life, Block 3, Part 3, Session 1.2, Discussion forums and newsgroups, Activity 2

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Feb 062012
 

Go to the BBC Messageboards page at http://www.bbc.co.uk/messageboards/ and browse around to see which ones look interesting to you. Then go into two boards of  your choice.

  • Do the two message boards seem similar or different to you? Can you say why?
  • How are the message boards moderated?

I first navigated to the categories menu, then went into the ‘BBC Television’ sub forum in ‘Points of View’. The first page has a lot of old, but still regularly updated posts ( age is assumed from the number of individual posts in the topics ). This, along with the various names appearing as the most recent contributors points towards the forum being popular and having a great number of individual users.

Next I went to the food Q & A forum. These topics seem to be shorter, and I can see some names coming up more often, this is probably because of the nature of the discussions within each post.

The type of moderation in the forums is reactive moderation, where posts are only investigated if it is flagged for moderation.