Forums

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Starting Points

• Participate in sasCommunity.org's peer-to-peer discussion Forums.

• Moderated forums can also be found on the SAS support site.

Additional Information about Forums

Forums are a facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions and posting user generated content and data from around 1995. They address a similar requirement/function as the dial-up bulletin boards and Internet newsgroups, such as the SAS-L list. As recognized by the members of the SAS-L list, forums foster a sense of virtual community. For sasCommunity.org visitors who are not familiar with forums, the definition on Wikipedia provides a good overview.

Typically Forums are specific to certain general areas or class of topics. Any user can read and respond to a posting in any topic. Likewise, any user can create a new topic (sometimes called a thread in Internet newsgroups).

Creating new Forums or groups of forums is an administrative function that only certain administrators have access to. However, we have created a Forum where users can suggest and discuss the creation of new forums. If you want to propose a new Forum, please check out the Suggestions for Forums and Categories forum. If you see a topic related to your idea to a forum, comment there. Otherwise just create a new topic.

sasCommunity.org also has a forum, sasCommunity - general site feedback, whose intended use is to discuss proposed changes and additions to sascommunity.org.