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Facebook slowly strangling this site?
Jaan:
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--- 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
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Its slightly demotivating John when you go back to add another part and you get the pink warning box but not for "someone else has just posted" but "are you sure you want to post as the thread hasn't seen any activity for 120 days"
ED209:
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--- Quote from: ED209 on October 21, 2014, 09:50 AM ---This all reminds me of that King Canute fella ... he had about as much luck.
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I used to love them from my Psychobilly days, can see what reference they have to this conversation though Ed
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Oh Sorry I thought you wrote King Kurt :LolLolLolLol:
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you were never a Psychobilly PMSL! PICTURES!!!! NOW!!!!!
;D
Gnarlyscoots:
I have to agree with you Chris. This site has become about starting threads that have no connection to BMX at all. Like yourself and Dan pointed out, 100 votes in the Botm competition, that's after drilling on here and FB pages to get them to do it BUT, 25 pages of 'What silly things annoy you?'. Members can take time to write on that thread but cannot even comment on someone's build or click the bubble for someone's build in BOTM.
We need to have parts timeline too please. With the Museum's new reference section, there are just pictures for reference, no dating. I have spent a lot of time doing the Mitsuboshi/Tioga timelime due to nothing being set in stone anywhere else. Can we can take the lead in this please Mods? I would love to be able to just go to, say, 1984, and have a look at the parts that were available to help me with my build. There is nothing worse than top see something for sale, google to research for 2 or 3 hours, and come back to find it sold. A date reference section would solve that in minutes. It can easily be policed with comments being removed daily and just pictures posted in the year line.
You could also make the timelines for SST registered users only. If you need the information, make a contribution to other peoples hard work :daumenhoch:
dinglem:
I would agree with Jaan that there are very few posters in the Parts and Reference sections on here (just checked and whilst I have added a few it is mainly just Jaan contributing as can been seen in the list of last posts). I post more in the similar sections on BMXMuseum and Ozbmx than here as they seem to see a lot more traffic. I tried to start a Brum WHEELS register in the same section on here and you can see the ratio of viewers to posters.
factory pilot:
I'm I getting déjà vu here?
Here we go again .....
I totally agree .. All sales must be on here and here only ...
SST protects Radsters and provides funds for MK!
It's a no brainer!
As for the photo stuff ... Tapatalk is idiot proof !! Even I can use it! Lol
I met so many people at MK who were on the "FB" page not on here ... Got to say it was a little annoying! :tickedoff:
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