Dj Forums

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ebmaster, in order for the users to communicate, sets up the forum. Therefore it is up to the users and visitors of these fan sites to keep the forums alive and running. So all of the fans rely on their peers for help, and it works better this way because users are getting questions answered from other people who may have a lot more experience and know how to answer specific question. Another advantage of having these forums is that the users are not set to one particular brand of equipment, so if a user has different questions about different brands he can get all the answers right in front of his face, rather than having to go through a ton of different manufacturer sites. The layout and design of the fan forums are set up to look more user friendly and not have as much as a professional feel to them as much as the manufacturer sites.
For the manufacturer FAQ sites, the authors tend to be technicians and engineers of a particular brand of equipment. This may range from a single technician, to a group of technicians that help produce and market the equipment. Therefore they take the full responsibility for answering frequently asked questions that Dj enthusiasts may have. The way they organize the sites, is that users will email questions to one of the technicians of the particular brand, and the technician will receive all of the questions of different users. They then will take the more frequently asked question and post them on the site for people to come view. This is a very different approach from fan forums because there is a little more freedom in fan forums and a wider range of people who might be able to answer questions. On FAQ sites, the questions are fairly general and very basic. With FAQ sites, the author of the sites is more invisible than fan forums because the user...