Fanmail Questions

[ashleyiu]

Hello,
First off- I am new to this community, so I apologize if this is not posted in the correct area and would be happy to move this discussion if it is in the wrong area.

I am a college student and for one of my classes we are studying online communities and how they address disconnections, tensions, and/or disagreement in their forums.
Being interested in collecting celebrity autographs I figured this would be a good online community to analyze.
In order to see how this community handles situations within the community, I have a small list of questions (below) that I was hoping some of you would be willing to answer. This would greatly help me with my class and with my own desire to understand how online communities handle conflict. (Also, I would appreciate if you would please let me know whether or not I have your permission to use what you say for my class. I can omit usernames if necessary)
Thank you for your time (feel free to answer as many or as few questions as you would like)

1.) Why did you join/do you use fanmail.biz forums?

2.) How long have you used this online community (as a guest/just visiting)? How long have you been a member/registered user of this online community?

3.) How frequently do you visit this online community? How frequently do you post discussions/topics? How frequently do you post responses?

4.) How often do you notice disagreements in this community? (for example: disagreements about autograph authenticity or sharing via venue addresses)

5.) How are disagreements/differences in opinion handled?

6.)How are words/pictures/emoticons used in disagreements in order to either escalate or dissolve tensions within the community?

7.) Would you say that feedback/responses are mostly positive, mostly negative, or neither? Why?

Classification Questions (again, all of this is optional, but helpful):

A.) What is your gender/age range?
B.) How long have you collected autographs?

Thank you,
Ashley