WhiteShade's Thoughts…

You know what I hate? When people insert themselves into an argument when they have hardly an idea what they’re talking about. It’s like they think they know all about the subject but they really don’t. Like (sorry to the person who I’m using in this example, but it’s true you really didn’t know much about the subject you were trying to bring up), I was ranting about site makers and how people are really lazy with not coding their own websites or getting someone else to code them. Then they tried bring up the fact that I do the same thing with forums.

But to tell the truth, forums were a much more complicated matter, and one of the hardest online creations ever to code. Few are harder to code that a forum, and those may be something like Youtube or Google, or any kind of search engine/video site. MySpace and Facebook wouldn’t be hard, just repetitive and time-consuming. Anyways, I can easily see why someone would use a premade forum, and I will also post my entire comment to the user:

I see where you’re going with that point but forums are a completely different matter, thus ruining your argument.

Forums are actually more complex than most people think. I was ranting on about websites and site makers because forums are one of the hardest and most difficult of online web creations to code, and I can easily see why someone might use a pre-made forum rather than a custom-coded forum. Even the most experienced coders would have to work on their own forum around an hour everyday for 3/4 month to a month, depending on how fast they can figure out problems to glitches, whereas a website can be created in about 3 hours time depending on the experience of the coder and all the features of a website (for a full-scale website that is WAY off).

Now, I can see why someone might spend 3 hours on a website…Because they want to make a website, and it’s not too much time wasted if it doesn’t work out. But seriously, you custom-code a forum, which could take anywhere from 1/2 a month to 5 months depending on how much you want to work on it and how many features there are. Now say that fails…You just spent a bunch of your time that you could spend doing a bunch of other stuff that you actually need to do (education, a job, etc.) and it failed. You just wasted almost HALF A YEAR. So, why take the risk?

Also, when you compare them, most of those forum-makers have been created after years of work. Now which one would your users be happier with? A mediocre forum by you, or a feature-rich forum with a bunch of pre-made features and special stuff just for you and your users?

I’ll let you decide.

Of course I’ve done it a few times, (yes I admit it) and I think everyone has, but I really HATE IT when it does happen, and I especially hate it when people do that OVER and OVER. It’s like they don’t even realize what they’re doing, when in truth, they’re just PDS’in (Public Display of Stupidity).

And if you ever see someone try to insert themselves into one of your discussions, tell them “WhiteShade just POWNED you!”

WhiteShade