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Aug 4, 2013 - 12:36 PM |
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Thoughts On GFF |
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Been watching that meet thread. You know, the one everyone is having meltdowns over? Acer (ACER ACER ACER!) made some good points about the community whole and people's thoughts on the site and the group going over to Facebook and all that. Instead of putting more :words: in that thread which I'm not really involved in, I'm going to put some here.
The problem with GFF isn't less use of the site but smaller numbers in long term members. We get plenty of people in and out but very few stay for long (CLUB ELITISM must keep the barbars at the gate) while those without true grit wander over to the sharing area and are swallowed up, never to return.
(My thoughts on the sharing area are old and long-stated and I will not put them here again, save to say they haven't changed and that I think closing it or moving it to its own area would help with the chaff versus wheat member situation.)
As to GFF on Facebook, its a nonissue. Everyone uses FB because... everyone uses FB. In ten years, no one will use it; like Friendster or MySpace, it'll be replaced by something else entirely and GFF will plant a flag there too. It'll help in communication between members but it won't be an identifying thing. No one goes to Facebook to see what's going on here, after all.
So the question is: what is there to do?
I still advocate that whole "sign on for a while before going to a meet" thing. It's popular with some and very unpopular with others (see: every opinion I've ever had) but maybe if we as lasting members started posting some links on FB to threads on here we'd get the new blood we've been lacking for so long. A perfect example is that FFIV playthrough thread which I've found immensely entertaining and moreover - it's not "cliquey". It's a bunch of posts where you don't have to worry about who likes who and internal drama and shit. So maybe if we had more (I hate to use this word but) "generic" threads and posted them other places (FB, twitter, etc) we'd attract more new members.
Not that everyone who comes here is worth keeping but word of mouth would go farther.
Just a thought. Go about your day.
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