Look at how advanced they are!

The section in ch18 about Stormfront.org about their forums makes them seem very dedicated to "Foster[ing] an online community." However, all of the tools that their site uses are used by close to every single online forum. If you look all the way at the bottom of the page it says "Powered by vBulletin." If you go to the vBulletin website, the first thing they say about themselves is:

"It gives you an instant community that lets your visitors interact, take part in discussions, ask questions, give answers and express opinions."

Take a peak at their Features section. It lists, very briefly, almost everything that Statzel details about the Strormfront forum.

I'm not trying to take a dig at Statzel, I have no idea what she knows about vBulletin and how prevalent it is. What I am trying to get at is how easy it is for someone with $180 and the determination to create a hugely successful online community to start attracting members.

If there was no white supremacist site on the internet I would actually be kind of shocked, because you don't need to know how to code in html, or any other programming language. With the availibility of web servers (a google search for "web server rental" yields 757,000 results) one need not even own a server to host the website. In order to start and moderate a web forum needs little more than basic computer literacy.