If any of you have been in MSNBC Groups (groups.msn.com), you will love this forum. Anyone can start a forum at MSNBC and people are lurking to join new groups, but there are downsides....

For one thing, the MSNBC forum software is visually attractive, but slow and primitive. Even if you have a broadband conection, it's not as fast as navigating GreenHybrid with it's vBulletin forum software with a dial-up without web acceleration. No search capabilities, statistics on how often a thread was read, listing just the posts since your last visit....they do have a free place to put a few pictures.

There may be hundreds of automotive forums at MSNBC, but the way they list them is very flawed. A program rates the activity weekly. The assumption is any post, no matter how trivial is activity. It measures members that join, new webpages, etc, but removing inactive members helps ratings. As a result, members get dumped and competing forums get trolled.

I've beat this to death - lots of lurkers is the norm.

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"fanatic" is what the lazy call the dedicated