forumgoer

English

Alternative forms

• forum-goer

Etymology

From forum +‎ goer.

Noun

forumgoer (plural forumgoers)

1. A member or visitor of an Internet forum.
   • 2015 October 20, Caitlin Dewey, “A YouTube video claims ‘Back to the Future’ predicted 9/11 — and that isn’t even the weird part”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     In 2005, a forum-goer named Nathan Poe pronounced one of the most quintessential Internet laws: Without a winkie or other “blatant display of humor,” parodies of extreme views can’t be distinguished from the genuine article.

   • 2023 February 23, Antonio G. Di Benedetto, “You can now play the original Half-Life with beautiful beams of ray-traced light”, in The Verge‎^[2]:

     Of course, you’ll want to have a fairly beefy PC to render this impeccable lighting. Half-Life may be old, but this lighting doesn’t come cheap on GPU load. Some forumgoers say you may need a 4090 to play at 4K resolution.