World Forum DIrectories

A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site. It originated as the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content.

A Forum Directory is web directory is not a search engine and does not display lists of Forums based on keywords; instead, it lists Forums by category and subcategory.

A forum consists of a tree like directory structure containing at the lowest end topics (commonly called threads) and inside them posts. Logically forums are organised into a finite set of generic topics (usually with one main topic) driven and updated by a group known as members, and governed by a group known as moderators. Forums prefer a premise of open and free discussion and often adopt de facto standards. Most common topics on forums include questions, comparisons, polls of opinion as well as debates. Because of their volatile and random behavior it is not uncommon for nonsense or unsocial behavior to sprout as people lose temper, especially if the topic is controversial. Poor understanding of differences in values of the participants is a common problem on forums.

Because replies to a topic are often wording aimed at someone's point of view, discussion will usually go slightly off into several directions as people question each others validity, sources and so on. Circular discussion and ambiguity in replies can carry out arguments for several tens of posts of a thread eventually ending when everyone gives up or another similar debate takes it over. It is not uncommon for a style over substance or ad hominem debates to be the ones to take it over.

List of Directory Forums

www.forumzilla.com
www.crankshaftcoalition.com/forumlist.html
www.grandeforum.com
www.forumrating.com
http://www.forumshowcase.com
http://www.forum-directory.com
http://www.forum-finder.com
http://www.forumzilla.com
http://www.forum-search.com
http://www.forumsindex.net
http://www.worldpropertylinks.co.uk/forum/index.php
http://links.odd-bits.com
http://linkageplus.com
http://www.forumurl.com/
http://www.myforumdirectory.com/
http://www.forumvirus.com/
http://directory.big-boards.com/