On 2009-01-04 08:27:12 +0900, The Wanderer  said:   
   >> It seems fine enough if people would use it, which goes right to the   
   >> heart of your comment about obscurity. When I say it can't hold its   
   >> own, it is largely because of web-based forums that integrate   
   >> avatars, signatures, titles, embedded images/sounds/videos etc.   
   >   
   > Those are among the things touted as advantages for Web forums, yes. The   
   > difference is that in my opinion most of them are bad things, and so are   
   > not advantages at all.   
      
   I see. I've become spoiled by facebook and similar sites, where   
   everything is just so easy to present together. It's weird to me to go   
   back to a pure text environment.   
      
   >   
   >> On a web-based forum, I wouldn't need to post links to my pictures; I   
   >> could just embed them.   
   >   
   > I might consider that a bad thing as well.   
      
   Without strict moderation, it could be, I suppose.   
      
   > Most people who need to post images and don't have available Webspace   
   > for it just use things like imageshack - which are bad IMO for various   
   > reasons, but are adequate workarounds for when nothing better is   
   > available.   
   >   
   > I would personally rather not have some of the kinds of traffic which   
   > Web forums seem to attract in volume...   
      
      
   Well, yeah, but those wouldn't work for this purpose either, as I need   
   to talk about what each   
      
   > Believe it or not, I'm not sure I've ever heard of any of those people.   
   > (For reference, I arrived just in time to witness what turned out to be   
   > the final demise of Otaku Wars!.)   
      
   Ah, I predate you by several years then.   
      
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