arcaneguyver on 10 August 2015
I think it can, if the forum contents are biased in one specific direction. For example, if 300 people all with the same unpopular opinion congregate in one forum (we'll say 50 actually post rather than lurk) and basically stay on that forum, leaving momentarily to find evidence of their prejudices, it can feel like there are way more people who agree with them. Facebook has the same effect - when six of my friends post three or four pro-Bernie Sanders stuff, it fills my feed and looks like there's more support for that guy than there might be. (Just an example, not getting political here or anything.)
GameFAQs can be this sort of environment, if people stick to just one system board, visiting others just to troll.
