The Benefits of Blogs and Message Boards

Web site visitors play a more central role in discussion boards than in blogs. Typically most or all of the content (posts) originate with the visitors, who ask questions, raise issues and start discussion. The discussion board may have an active moderator who reviews messages before they are posted and approves/rejects members, but only rarely does the moderator also function as the “discussion host” and take an active lead in creating specific topics of discussion.