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Facebook slowly strangling this site?
griff:
--- Quote from: stidds on October 25, 2014, 08:51 AM ---I have said before that FB is not a problem for me, it is another avenue to rad and other groups of interest.
To be honest Rad is not in competition with these other groups as they do not have the history, information or resources we do. It is really easy to open a FB group and then to populate it with loads of members to look successful. However it is difficult to also run a very successful forum alongside.
I remember having a discussion with a banned member about FB groups and he was banging on about his group is more successful than this site as he has 2.5k members and rad only has 2k members. Thing is every rad FB member has asked to be a member, whereas he just randomly adds people to his whether they want to be a member or not. Hell the idiot even added me and most of the rad admin team.... what a fooking twonk.
I do however want to limit sales to the forum only, I know there are other places for selling goods on FB and that is the point, mostly every sale on rads FB group are on every other selling place too, it makes no difference if we limit sales to this site or not. However, if a person only wants be part of our FB group to sell there crap then I don't really want them as a member. Plus if part of the SST we all pay yearly is to be able to sell on rad, then why should somebody who doesn't pay towards the site upkeep etc benefit as much as our SST's?
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:daumenhoch:
It's true, we have seen other groups 'harvesting' members by actively going round the members of rad one & others, simply press-ganging people in. I'm not talking about those set up by good mates btw, I don't mind being added to those but I've no interest in joining sales groups simply set up to try and put the forum out of business or feed someone's ego. Rather than indulge in some kind of willy waving exercise about how many members we have, we just let people sign up because they want to. What makes me laugh is when you then see the owners or admins of the groups trying to offload their tat on the rad one - talk about fishing from the same pond!
Agree that taking sales off would probably be a good idea, only thing I would add is that to be fair to sst holders who want to be able to use FB too is that they should be allowed to continue to sell on there if they have it up on here too (with a link to the sales post). Not going to chop & change every 5 minutes though as I'll no doubt get grief for it but if that seems to sit right with people it can easily be sorted and I don't mind policing it :teef: :police:
Betty:
Had a butchers at the fb page after reading this thread, there's some right shite for sale on there ;D
Gnarlyscoots:
--- Quote from: griff on October 25, 2014, 10:18 AM ---SSt holders who want to be able to use FB too, should be allowed to continue to sell on there if they have it up on here (with a link to the sales post). If that seems to sit right with people, it can easily be sorted, and I don't mind policing it :teef: :police:
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That's good for me John. There are plenty of other sites to sell on, although I only use Rad, The Museum and Lee's page for that purpose. There is always Ebay to sell on too, so plenty of choice :)
Gish:
Yeah put a block on things getting sold on the FB page.
If people wanna sell to rad members then at least they will need to pay/have a SST to do this, it can't make the forum sales page any slower can it ???
Then if people query why they can't sell on FB page then direct them to forum :)
griff:
--- Quote from: Gish on October 25, 2014, 10:59 AM ---Yeah put a block on things getting sold on the FB page.
If people wanna sell to rad members then at least they will need to pay/have a SST to do this, it can't make the forum sales page any slower can it ???
Then if people query why they can't sell on FB page then direct them to forum :)
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Exactly, any links from there to here can only increase traffic
Of course if the same items go on 10 other FB groups at the same time then it makes no difference, but if I have anything to sell I would always offer it up here first on principle (not that anyone wants my shite :teef:)
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