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Facebook. We really should link this forum to it, like it or not., This forum is now a digital dinasaur. |
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Sep 22 2016, 09:50 PM
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/Newburypast...474575914330694So much more public involvement. That said. NWN for crying out loud why do you not do your duty and go for it?
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Sep 22 2016, 10:12 PM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Sep 22 2016, 10:50 PM) https://www.facebook.com/groups/Newburypast...474575914330694So much more public involvement. That said. NWN for crying out loud why do you not do your duty and go for it? I guess I agree that a Facebook group would be a better medium to host a debate - it would certaily be superior on mobile where this forum is pants. However I don't think Newbury has any great intetest in the kind of critical debate we have here. Newbury Past & Present has a lively following but it's very lightweight and tends to respond badly to negativity. There's a Moaners sister page which looked pretty awful when I last looked in a year ago.
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Sep 23 2016, 02:23 AM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Sep 22 2016, 11:12 PM) I guess I agree that a Facebook group would be a better medium to host a debate - it would certaily be superior on mobile where this forum is pants.
However I don't think Newbury has any great intetest in the kind of critical debate we have here. Newbury Past & Present has a lively following but it's very lightweight and tends to respond badly to negativity. There's a Moaners sister page which looked pretty awful when I last looked in a year ago. Both facespace and this forum are pants on mobile, so I challenge the superior tag, but a lot of that is because mobile browsers are pants. The other thing I noticed is that all the complaints about this site exist in farcebook too. The best thing about the Newbury fartbook pages are the old photos, but any chances of a good debate soon disappear when the swivel eyed, tree huggers and blue rinsers get going.
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Sep 23 2016, 07:30 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Sep 23 2016, 03:23 AM) fakebook is more a messageboad than an effective debating medium. Facebook supports an unlimited depth of reply-to-reply and I suggedt that this better supports a debate between multiple people that can take multiple directions. It also directly hosts images and supports embedded content such as youtube and for all these reasons I agree that it is a better medium for discussion. Do you use the Facebook mobile app? For me it's a reasonable mobile experince though the text-entry field is very small.
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Sep 23 2016, 07:45 AM
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QUOTE (x2lls @ Sep 22 2016, 10:50 PM) https://www.facebook.com/groups/Newburypast...474575914330694So much more public involvement. That said. NWN for crying out loud why do you not do your duty and go for it? If this happens then I'm off. No F/B for me. (Awaits predictable replies!! )
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Sep 23 2016, 07:45 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Sep 23 2016, 08:27 AM) It still seems like an ePub debate. The difference between this and Facebook is the difference between saloon bar v public with a couple local FB pages being the car park after closing time. We may be arguing at cross-purposes. I'm talking about the suitability of the Facebook medium to host a debate and not any particular Facebook Group. I'm not aware of a Facebook Group for Newbury where matters are discussed critically, objectively and relatively civilly as I would suggest they are here. To be fair I think it's remarkable that we can discuss pretty much anything on here without much more than the odd tiff - this place is a virtual monestary compared to the awfulness of the social-mediaverse in general.
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Sep 23 2016, 07:50 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Sep 23 2016, 08:45 AM) If this happens then I'm off. No F/B for me. (Awaits predictable replies!! ) What are you objecting to? You're not obliged to share anything about yourself on Facebook or visit any groups or pages that you don't want to.
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Apr 20 2017, 06:43 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Apr 20 2017, 06:01 AM) The slow but sure death of the forum continues. The link has now been removed from the main banner on the NWN home page. Inevitable I suppose when down to less than a dozen contributors and FB / Google rule the world!. It's actually still there. Where the title 'Property Forum' appear on the top line, click on the actual word 'forum' it opens the link to here. I suspect it's just an error which happened when someone was tidying the website; but I'd not disagree with your sentiments!
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Apr 20 2017, 08:17 AM
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QUOTE (Biker1 @ Apr 20 2017, 06:01 AM) The slow but sure death of the forum continues. The link has now been removed from the main banner on the NWN home page. Inevitable I suppose when down to less than a dozen contributors and FB / Google rule the world!. It disappears from time to time, but I can see it at the moment.
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Apr 20 2017, 03:24 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Apr 20 2017, 07:43 AM) It's actually still there. Where the title 'Property Forum' appear on the top line, click on the actual word 'forum' it opens the link to here. Oh yes I see it now. Moved from the main blue banner.
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Aug 8 2017, 02:12 PM
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I'm not an FB fan unless groups are private ones. Feel like you're on display there LOL
On the subject of this forum dying.... We'll I've had a bit of trouble even getting on. I had to email some NWN bods.
Looking at the Members List it 'appears' that all the recent joiners are in a state of 'Validating' newest bar me I saw was 2015. Is that right?
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Aug 8 2017, 02:21 PM
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QUOTE (HOW @ Aug 8 2017, 03:12 PM) I'm not an FB fan unless groups are private ones. Feel like you're on display there LOL
On the subject of this forum dying.... We'll I've had a bit of trouble even getting on. I had to email some NWN bods.
Looking at the Members List it 'appears' that all the recent joiners are in a state of 'Validating' newest bar me I saw was 2015. Is that right? I know someone who had exactly the same problem . In the end he just gave up . The cynic may well consider that "higher" forces would like to see it close down. It does not fit into the social media criteria because there is a degree of anonymity and most of the contributors can compose an opinion without resorting to personal diatribe . ( Well I did say most ).
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Aug 8 2017, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE (SirWilliam @ Aug 8 2017, 03:21 PM) I know someone who had exactly the same problem . In the end he just gave up . The cynic may well consider that "higher" forces would like to see it close down. It does not fit into the social media criteria because there is a degree of anonymity and most of the contributors can compose an opinion without resorting to personal diatribe . ( Well I did say most ). If the NWN wants to close it they may as well do so - it's dying a slow death as it is.
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