How the forums of Ultimate-Guitar.com look. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=11On ultimate-guitar.com, individuality and conformity are balanced, but the two often affect each other. One such example would be how people can be individuals by choosing to speak openly about certain things on the website’s forums. On topic specific forums about genres of music, one could claim to be a fan of reggae and emo music, while on the open forum known as “the Pit”, people can talk about how they are an openly gay or what their specific political affiliation is. The way conformity comes into this is how while everyone has an opinion on certain issues, moderators on the site will not allow for rude behavior towards others on the site. In this way, everyone can be an individual and have their own opinion, but they are not allowed to organize against or be hateful towards another group that they disagree with, thus; they must conform to the Ultimate-Guitar’s guidelines on proper forum use. Ultimate-Guitar is an online community, but it features very little diversity since the primary users of the site are white male guitarists, because for the most part, most users of the site are guitarists, and most guitarists are white males. Diversity, however; is accepted since most of these users find it interesting that others share a common thing with them.
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