# A note on political forums **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Building\ **Created:** [April 20, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-note-on-political-forums/304759 "2024-04-20T21:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2024, 10:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-note-on-political-forums/304759/2 "2024-04-20T22:17:17Z")
> [@lisandro\_iaffar](#): > > For three years straight I was unable to draw any attention to the forum like if it was a law strict as gravity. Do you think you could have drawn attention to a blog post? I’m wondering if part of the difficulty with a forum is that it’s asking people to _join_ something. A blog post with a comment form is just asking people to login/register and respond with whatever’s at the top of their mind at the moment. It’s a subtle difference, but… --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-note-on-political-forums/304759)._