[quote=doubledenim][font=century gothic]Or already being through your grace period and still not figuring it out?[/font][/quote]

[quote=doubledenim][quote=Yoda]What makes it a community is the back and forth. The people I'm thinking of were not that interested in people's responses, they just wanted to broadcast.[/quote]

[font=century gothic]What about aggregating content from all the sites we all read, posting it here and not having anything to say about it?[/font][/quote]

[quote=AgrippinaX]I literally had an experience a few months ago talking to my therapist where she asked if I ever got anything out of human interaction, and I said yes, on occasion. One of the few examples I could come up with was from here, when my perspective on The Zone of Interest shifted following responses to my thread. 

A similar thing happened to me irl a few years back during the pandemic, when a conversation with someone totally changed my perspective on Breaking Bad’s ending. 

I think some people are naturally inclined to ‘broadcast their thoughts’, which is kind of reductive, but it is a way of being/ingrained communication style. But that doesn’t mean they don’t get an enormous amount of value out of interaction, especially when it comes to talking about art, film and so on.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Blogs are much more egotistic than one might think. Forums are all about sharing. I think there's a need for writing something only a very specific group of people (if any) will read. A blog is an electronic diary, after all.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]Communities help you evolve. Blogs are basically closed-off information bubbles. You learn much slower when it's just you versus you and ten other people constantly at odds with your thoughts.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]What makes it a community is the back and forth. The people I'm thinking of were not that interested in people's responses, they just wanted to broadcast.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]The need for a community you belong to is strong.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]There have been a handful of users over the years who I felt ultimately wanted to just write a blog, but posted on the forum instead because it kind of tricked people into reading something they wouldn't have otherwise.[/quote]

[quote=Mr Minio]I need to leave MoFo and start a film blog. Nobody will read it which would make it obscure and therefore cool. Thoughts?[/quote]

[quote=John McClane][quote=Sedai]Confirmed. I saw it myself in a movie, which I now understand to be a documentary instead of a bad sci-fi as I originally thought.[/quote]
You watched ole Johnny again didn’t ya?[/quote]