Why mostly people use forum posting

[bhatnagar.ashish001]

I had seen that plenty of people use forum posting for making the backlinks of his website. There are couple of nice methods of link building like directory submission, blog commenting, social bookmarking etc. But why people mostly use forum posting technique for making the backlinks of his website.

[DarkTales]

Not always, but people like to use forum posting as one of the many techniques of link building. Forum posting sometime gives you significant traffic as well.