B-Con
Online Communities
Forums
In my opinion, bulletin-board style communities are one of the better social developments in the past century. Many are trolled by moronic illiterates but this isn’t much different from most other social gatherings. The difference is that forums provide a simple, efficient method of communication: All communication is permanently logged and viewable by everyone, allowing one as much time as they want to think about what they say and to join whatever conversations one wishes. Geek utopia.

I’m very consistent, so for all the forums I visit I use the same user name, “B-Con”, and the same avatar, Dogbert waving his paw saying “Bah”. I really love that image, I even have the actual comic strip it came from on a t-shirt.
Dogbert saying 'Bah'

This is a list of my profiles on the various forums I’ve visited, along with my respective post counts at each, which I update every several months. I’m made some rounds online, but I usually stay active on no more than three or four forums at a time. (Post counts last updated as of date below.) * Forums marked with asterisk indicate that I am either a forum administrator or moderator.

Communities
One of the more recent Web 2.0 fads seems to be creating an online interactive support-oriented community to complement your immensely popular website. Yahoo! Answers being the first to truly pioneer this concept successfully.

Since such places tend to be trolled and polluted by the most idiotic of questions (like chat rooms gone Q&A), I originally had no interest in them. But when I’m feeling uninspired, as of late I’ve taken up visiting the Yahoo! Answers Computer Security and Mathematics sections. It’s a way to feel productive without actually expending much effort, earn worthless points, and subject yourself to the risk of actually learning a trivial thing or two.
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