website analysis- virtual community

Virtual Community

The forum that is available has defiantly created a community between the users, there are people who are more knowledgeable about films, television programs and just alluc.org in general and so they are teaching other users the best way to navigate around the site and the best links etc to use. Within the forum there is a section called “Thread Graveyard” in which it says it contains “dead/closed/shitty threads” you can tell that this is not a corporately owned website, because of the diversity of ages that this website appeals to this type of language may not always be appropriate, but because of the sort of people that do own it, I will not be a big deal to them. I believe that the community that is created on this website is very different to the traditional sense of community, because it can appeal to any ages, any body could be on the forums, people from all ages from anywhere around the world. People that you talk to might not even have the same tastes as you, but you are connected by the fact that you are trying to find films or television shows, but maybe not the same shows or films as the people that you are talking to. Howard Rheingold suggested that communities online were very similar to communities that were face to face they were just broadened out by the use of technology, but the forum that he was talking about “The Well” requires people to use there real identities, it would not matter if on alluc.org you called yourself “ Hero Fan 4 EVA” or whether you used your real name as it is less about the people you meet and more about the information that you can get off them. So maybe here I have contradicted myself, and its not a real community?