Other MBTI forums vs. this forum

[Lucid]

How is this forum different from forums of other MBTI types? Is it different? Do you think it's because of the type or is it different for other reasons?

[Hdier]

The INTP forum (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.************************) is very similar, though they have more categories. I think that that is simply because a different person created it, though, not because of type.

[Jezebel]

Another difference is that INTP Central has been around for about 4 years. We have been around for about 4 months. This makes a difference in established culture and activity, but this forum is off to a strong start for its young age. While I believe the prominence of the INTJ personality type does play a role in the type of culture we have here, I believe it is more of a function of how the board is run and community differences that go beyond the MBTI.

[Hdier]

Only four months? Wow, it seems a lot older, to my inexperienced eye. Perhaps that's part of the reason that we have less categories.

[thod]

On this forum people tend to reply to previous posters points. On INTPc previous posts get ignored and people just make thier own point regardless leading to disjointed threads.
The posters on this board are much more driven and ambitious than the average poster over on INPTc

[stasis]

I believe it is more of a function of how the board is run and community differences that go beyond the MBTI.
Absolutely. Much like any internet community, the specificity of the board culture on INTJf is pretty much determined by the manner in which the owner enables and arranges its mode of discussion. While the topical focus of a messageboard will tend to attract a specific subset of individuals - namely, those interested in or accessible to the subject(s) - and while it is true that specific subsets have particular constellations of behavioral characteristics by definition, the expression of those characteristics is always a function of the social context to which they've been oriented. INTPc and MBTIc are as they are in majority part because of the manner in which they're run. We can expect INTJf to be very different from either of these because of what amounts to radically divergent theory of administration between them.

Size, as you mention, and age are also complicating factors. Both of these things are strong social modifiers on a messageboard; the latter tending to apply to things like the degree of social conservatism in the community and the extent to which preservative moderation and administration action needs to take place, and the former seeming to apply more to things like the existence and consequence of board subculture. In my experience, anyway.


The INTP forum (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.************************) is very similar
They both look kind of blue, I guess.

[errrzarrr]

Hey, only 4 months. Congratulations, It is going very well.

Is there a ENTJ forum ?

[Zilal]

Yeah, 4 months, wow. I had no idea. I've already come to like this place better than INTPc... I didn't realize that I was holding back on being myself there until I came here and felt more at home. I like the lower number of categories here, though. It feels easier to keep up with things.

[Jezebel]

Only four months? Wow, it seems a lot older, to my inexperienced eye. Perhaps that's part of the reason that we have less categories.

I like the lower number of categories here, though. It feels easier to keep up with things.

This was purposeful and I like it, too. Subforums should primarily be functional. I'm annoyed by checking forums with tons of subforums that only occasionally have new posts. Members should already be able to post about any type of subject matter and place it in the most applicable category. Once a lot of topics accumulate on something more specialized than I have a category for, or once a subforum is filling up with threads that are getting bumped off the first page too quickly, it becomes sensible to create a new subforum. It's an evolving process though and there may be more in the future. For example, the psychology sections were originally all in one subforum, but quickly became so popular that it needed to be broken up.

[HackerX]

Remember though that in the 4 years that INTPC has been around, it didn't always have so many subforums, mearly that the extent of the number of posts has caused it to grow over that time.

I foresee that here will do the same in time :)

[Jezebel]

Remember though that in the 4 years that INTPC has been around, it didn't always have so many subforums, mearly that the extent of the number of posts has caused it to grow over that time.
False. I remember a bunch of empty subforums when they first moved over to their own domain. I remember starting a thread complaining about having so many subforums with hardly any activity. Some of them were eventually removed and condensed, but I always thought they had too many. They have merely added even more over time.

Just my tastes, though. Some agreed with me then and some didn't.

[HackerX]

I'll agree that they have too many now