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Facebook slowly strangling this site?
Jaan:
Lets talk about the elephant in the room...
If most folk on this site spent more time contributing towards what this forum is meant to be about "BMX" rather than "what silly things annoy you" (25 pages FFS!) there would be no competition, you wouldn't even worry about FB.
There are some folk in this thread that have been on here longer than me but I can only conclude that they don't actually own a BMX - well you can't do right? I can't see anything from you in the parts reference section of this site. I gave up adding parts as I ended up feeling like a fookin show off.
TO BE CLEAR, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the lounge and banter, but (i say) contribute first, talk sh1t later. Imagine if say... since the forum rebuild, every member had added 1 OS ad or 1 OS part a week (whats that a 5 minute investment?) imagine what this site would be like now... We wouldn't be having this discussion...
20to26:
Personally the only stuff I see appearing on my newsfeed from the Facebook group page are dominated by silly for sale posts...so I ignore it.
I much prefer coming here and experiencing the madness & enjoying the hobby
58 delray:
--- Quote from: stidds on October 21, 2014, 09:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: 58 delray on October 21, 2014, 09:40 AM ---a lot of people are saying ban sales on the FB page so they have to bee on here......thats not going to happen, people will just sell on one of the many other FB pages out there like they already do, most sales pop up on my news feed on 3 or 4 different pages at the same time.
you cant make people buy/sell on here and there are way to many outlets for sales now to even hope people will only use RAD.
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They can sell wherever they want Andy, fine with me there are as you say loads of places to sell.
If people are only using rad FB to sell then I don't care if they leave the FB group as they are not contributing to the site.
Our SST's are our life blood not some random con artist on FB.
Personally I would like to make MK weekend SST only(or maybe SST +1 guest), too many times I see people that contribute nothing to the site all year and then turn up at MK and drink free beer and have a great time. When MK is over they just go back to either not contributing to Rad or even worse bad mouthing the site.
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this is the first year i haven't had an SST and i didn't go to MK this year either before anyone say about the free beer :LolLolLolLol:
the reason for not having a SST this year is simple, to have one you need to have paypay, paypal is insecure and easily hackable as i found out when i lost £550 a year ago which i have still not had returned to me by PP, so i dont have a PP account anymore and just transfer money direct into peoples bank accounts.
griff:
--- Quote from: Jaan on October 21, 2014, 10:13 AM ---Lets talk about the elephant in the room...
If most folk on this site spent more time contributing towards what this forum is meant to be about "BMX" rather than "what silly things annoy you" (25 pages FFS!) there would be no competition, you wouldn't even worry about FB.
There are some folk in this thread that have been on here longer than me but I can only conclude that they don't actually own a BMX - well you can't do right? I can't see anything from you in the parts reference section of this site. I gave up adding parts as I ended up feeling like a fookin show off.
TO BE CLEAR, I'm not saying there is anything wrong with the lounge and banter, but (i say) contribute first, talk sh1t later. Imagine if say... since the forum rebuild, every member had added 1 OS ad or 1 OS part a week (whats that a 5 minute investment?) imagine what this site would be like now... We wouldn't be having this discussion...
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This is a nice idea Chris - with regards to the talking sh1t/posting valid stuff about BMX ratio I will freely admit to being very biased towards the former though :teef: A lot of that is either due to lack of knowledge (while I will freely share what I know I'm mostly learning from others) or not having a vast collection of things to photograph (my 'collection' of 3 bikes has already been fairly well documented)
Please don't ever think that you shouldn't post for fear of being branded a show off - is always nice to see pics of the shiny things!
Probably my favourite types of threads are the 'How-to' restos (or even how not-to), would love to see more of these as they are always really useful when you've got a build on
Taipan:
This site had nothing to do with F*ckbook when it started and was a hive of activity? It didn't need it then and in my opinion it doesn't need it now :daumenhoch:
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