On Monday 29 Mar 2010, aidan o driscoll wrote: > Plus realistically a forum should be run and maintained by > REALSOFT themselves at their own website like every other 3D > application / Application out there??? > > Aidan
"...like every other 3D application / Application out there" I don't think that generalisation is true, at least about applications in general. In my experience Only large commercial organisations, who can afford the additional staff to maintain and moderate a forum and who, in addition, want to control what is said about their products, tend to run their own forums. Rather, in my experience, the support/interest forums for applications produced by smaller organisations tend to be set up and maintained by users, just like Boris did. Just as Boris found though, you need a large number of users, not only to provide the content, but also to help with moderation and spam bashing, to make such forums viable. Another factor with forums is that they really straddle both support and social functions. Hats off to Boris for giving it a try, but I personally didn't use his forum because I wasn't really interested in just chatting with people and the e-mail user list provides most of the support I need. LeeE
