Forums are excellent ways to campaign, but the trick is, is to consider the reader. What does the reader want and I always think it is good to make posts which are educational sometimes, or to start threads investigating things, as I'm always aware there are lots more people browsing than with actual accounts. One forum I go on you can look at it on an average evening and it will have over 100 people viewing each major subsection at any one time. Taken over a time scale of a few years that must be reaching out to millions. Also there is a quantity/quality situation. The more the quality goes up the more the quantity goes down, but the people who do read are often far more influential. Once a thread becomes a hot topic it can take on a life all of its own and one I did recently clocked up 95 pages and ranks at the top of the Google index when querying some very general phrases and words. So don't underestimate the power of the Internet, some people's bloggs have been known to have millions of readers. It's all down to what you say though.
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