The16types.info
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the16types.info has housed a popular English-language socionics forum since September 2004, as well as some now-defunct articles on socionics. It was originally administrated by Jimmy Cartrette, but in July 2006 was bought by forum member Reuben McNew, who subsequently became its administrator. In January 2009, user Subterranean bought the forum and took over its administration.
The16types.info has been the busiest socionics forum in English for years and has played an important role in the development of a socionics community in the West. As the biggest and most active forum, the16types.info has seen the broadest discussion of socionics topics, as well as the most publicized disagreements and rivalries.
[edit] Background and development
Jimmy Cartrette originally conceived the16types.info as a place to discuss his hypothesis that socionics and Oldham styles were closely related. It seems that he lost interest in the site due to the general lack of enthusiasm for his hypothesis. Hence the site is still called "a socionics and Oldham theory site", and has old pages where Oldham and socionics type descriptions are put together. Although it is made clear which parts refer to socionics and which to Oldham, it has led to some initial mistypings by people who do not realize the distinction, or who assume that the correlation is generally accepted.
In the beginning the16types community was heavily dependent on socionics articles by Sergei Ganin (his site Socionics.com lacked its own discussion forum for a very long time) but as of late it has depended more on translations from Russian sources, Dmitriy Lytov's site, and, especially, the sites of Rick DeLong as its main socionics sources. Accordingly, the forum's predominant approach to visual identification has mostly replaced the uncritical analysis of single pictures (as Sergei Ganin seems to support) to analysis of multiple pictures as well as celebrities' functional use in videos. Its forum discussions are also somewhat influenced by Smilexian socionics and the concept of subtypes.
At one point in 2006 much of the forum was deleted through a malicious attack, with many old threads irretrievably lost.
