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Does anyone know where I can find a compendium of online forums?

Asked by nmac (213points) November 13th, 2009

I hate to be the person who doesn’t trigger intellectual discussion, but I simply need help with this task:

A means of developing a list of the population of online discussion forums (general forums, not exclusively politics). Is there any sort of semi-comprehensive list out there akin to technorati.com?

Here are examples of forums so you can see what I mean:
http://www.ohiogamefishing.com/community/forumdisplay.php?f=5
http://www.carforums.org/

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Siren's avatar

Sounds like a census-type question to me. Maybe check out government agency websites? Also, hate to suggest it in this age of the internet, but maybe go to a library and get help from the librarian? Or call them and talk to one over the phone?

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@siren I talk to librarians a lot and they don’t know much about the internet – at my school, that is. it’s sort of depressing. i’m really looking for webby geek insight on this.

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Siren's avatar

Got it. Well, good luck. And if you end up on your own with this task I suggest to keep googling or searching using specific keywords.

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