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I think the main reason that the site is slow these days to a lot of us is years ago it was either rad ' the burner forum or the museum. That was it for most of us for our bmx fix. These days you've got so many more things to look at bmx wise which has gotta slow all these forums up a bit. Tbh I don't think shutting down the Facebook page will make one bit of difference to here. Stopping sales on the rad page will do nothing as there's plenty more you can use instead so can't see what good that will do. Think it's just the way thing and not a lot is gonna make a penth of difference.
just a small note to add on this point.... if u do shut down the facebook page there is every chance u will strengthen the spin off pages.... the debate has certainly made me come back to have another look at what goes on here.... just keep banging on about about rad being the true home of uk bmx... u'll never beat the quick fix of facebook but u this isnt about a quick fix.... keep doing what u do best as u guys are the driving force behind the uk scene. top work ... keep it up PK flipper
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?
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
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
Quote from: Gish on October 25, 2014, 10:59 AMYeah 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 Exactly, any links from there to here can only increase trafficOf 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 )
Quote from: griff on October 25, 2014, 10:18 AMSSt 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 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
I think it's going to be very hard to police if you only let people sell if they link to here.FB is so instant you will need a few more mods to keep an eye on the posts 24/7.But it's a great idea and hopefully will make our sales page a lot busier
can I sell my Ugg boots and Raybans on there?
......um, I didn't set it upThanks
I agree with with making the FB page sales only for the SST holders. good work John.Dont know if this has been said already but FB and pages alike are easy to use due to smart phone apps so is it possible to make a RAD app?