Do you envisage Social media changing the future of Moderated Forums?
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I assume I am in a minority but why do people get so cut up about other people calling them names on social media ?
isnt it all a bit, well childish playground stuff really. Laugh it off and move on - or better still, dont go there in the first place if you cant cope with it.
All seems so petty and bizarre. - legions of people queueing up to be "hurt" and "offended", often on behalf of others - and then going on TV to flag up their "mental health" issues like its a badge of honour.
Was unlucky enough to catch 10 mins of The One Show the other night - it was literally a Virtue Signalling - box ticking fest with viewers being urged to comment on "your socials" at every opportunity.
Social media has a lot to answer for - most of it negative.
er...I'll get me coat.
isnt it all a bit, well childish playground stuff really. Laugh it off and move on - or better still, dont go there in the first place if you cant cope with it.
All seems so petty and bizarre. - legions of people queueing up to be "hurt" and "offended", often on behalf of others - and then going on TV to flag up their "mental health" issues like its a badge of honour.
Was unlucky enough to catch 10 mins of The One Show the other night - it was literally a Virtue Signalling - box ticking fest with viewers being urged to comment on "your socials" at every opportunity.
Social media has a lot to answer for - most of it negative.
er...I'll get me coat.
I assume I am in a minority but why do people get so cut up about other people calling them names on social media ?
isnt it all a bit, well childish playground stuff really. Laugh it off and move on - or better still, dont go there in the first place if you cant cope with it.
All seems so petty and bizarre. - legions of people queueing up to be "hurt" and "offended", often on behalf of others - and then going on TV to flag up their "mental health" issues like its a badge of honour.
er...I'll get me coat.
I miss the days when you never got to hear of it. Now the stuff today finds you when you don't go looking for it. Whinges gets publicity. You hear Internet complaints even through the radio these days. Or twitter TV through your broadcast TV including sports.
Social media gave people a platform to moan and to get reassurance and validation from other moaners.
Before this, if someone was annoyed, there was no one to hear your moans so you just kept it to yourself. Now they just put it on SM and get their egos massaged by other narcissists.
Forums are a little different as the audiences are generally smaller and moans tend to remain there whereas SM moans are only a 1 click action to spread it like the virus it is.
The sooner SM dies, the sooner we get rid of a social cancer.
Right, that's that off my chest
Before this, if someone was annoyed, there was no one to hear your moans so you just kept it to yourself. Now they just put it on SM and get their egos massaged by other narcissists.
Forums are a little different as the audiences are generally smaller and moans tend to remain there whereas SM moans are only a 1 click action to spread it like the virus it is.
The sooner SM dies, the sooner we get rid of a social cancer.
Right, that's that off my chest
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Social media gave people a platform to moan and to get reassurance and validation from other moaners.
Before this, if someone was annoyed, there was no one to hear your moans so you just kept it to yourself. Now they just put it on SM and get their egos massaged by other narcissists.
Forums are a little different as the audiences are generally smaller and moans tend to remain there whereas SM moans are only a 1 click action to spread it like the virus it is.
The sooner SM dies, the sooner we get rid of a social cancer.
Right, that's that off my chest
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A GTA 5 Online fight club-like system I think will be the future.
TikTok says staff in China can access UK and EU user data
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I do hope that forums (of what is left of them) are here to stay. The moderators like on OcUK are humans, so if I got suspended, they let me know why via the red bar on the top of the forum navigation. Then if I'm still unsure, I can query it in the FCD section and get a reply with the reason. Job done.
On Facebook however, I know a few people who have had 2-day or 7-day suspensions and they don't know why they got suspended. This is because they got suspended by bots which can't/won't give an explanation. I hope this social media practice goes into decline in favour of real moderators.
On social media in general, I couldn't care less if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok dies a death in favour of older, more purposeful sites.
Facebook - replace with Friends Reunited or Face Party (networking with old / new friends)
Twitter - replace with Wordpress (people writing full blogs, and lose the politics please!)
Instagram - replace with deviantART (people can uploade art/photos in full size, rather than just 1000 x 1000)
TikTok - replace with YouTube or Daily Motion (for full length videos and YouTube shorts)
Have human moderation compulsory on all 4 sites (deviantART is already humanly-moderated).
The only one I'd keep as it is, is Reddit, as that is the closest you'll get on social media to being a forum and I think that has human mods (at least on sub-Reddits).
On Facebook however, I know a few people who have had 2-day or 7-day suspensions and they don't know why they got suspended. This is because they got suspended by bots which can't/won't give an explanation. I hope this social media practice goes into decline in favour of real moderators.
On social media in general, I couldn't care less if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or TikTok dies a death in favour of older, more purposeful sites.
Facebook - replace with Friends Reunited or Face Party (networking with old / new friends)
Twitter - replace with Wordpress (people writing full blogs, and lose the politics please!)
Instagram - replace with deviantART (people can uploade art/photos in full size, rather than just 1000 x 1000)
TikTok - replace with YouTube or Daily Motion (for full length videos and YouTube shorts)
Have human moderation compulsory on all 4 sites (deviantART is already humanly-moderated).
The only one I'd keep as it is, is Reddit, as that is the closest you'll get on social media to being a forum and I think that has human mods (at least on sub-Reddits).
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I hope moderated forums like this one stay around as you can have a decent discussion on here. I’ve been suspended here on several occasions when I was in breach of the forum rules.
FB doesn't really have proper discussion threads, the vast majority of comments are 1-2 sentences. There have been the odd topic on a public FB posts where I've wanted/tried to engage but it feels like a waste typing out a wall of text because the chances of someone putting together a few hundred words in reply are pretty slim. I don't know the stats but I imagine the majority of FB comments are submitted via smartphones rather than using a keyboard, which could influence things a bit.
Even if you ignore post length, a lot of the comments on FB are just people tagging their friends and whatnot rather than actually engaging in conversation.
One of the things I loathe about face book is that it's damn near impossible to navigate a lot of the time, it feels like things are moving around/in no real order (it might be easier on a phone but I refuse to install it, and use it in a private browser session as I hate the adverts/don't want to give Fb access to my contacts)..
On a forum like this if I need to find a comment by someone I can do it quite easily, I have major issues with that on facebook even if I see i've got a notification about a reply to a post i've commented on it feels like an uphill battle to find that comment.
Personally I really miss the days when forums like this were more common, as you could find a forum on a specific subject and navigate it relatively easily including finding older content. I can barely find stuff from a month ago on the handful of facebook groups i'm in, admittedly I might find it easier if I use it more but nothing about facebook inclines me to put that effort into it, the only reason I have an account at all is because my local wargaming group organises everything on it.
over moderation seems to have killed most forums, they get strict and people just stop using them, look at nearly all the hardware related pc forums, absolutely dead looking
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Sounds like a mess.
Twitter 2.
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It already has. Some great forums have long since died. The social media platforms that are now available are just worse in every way possible.
I really liked AMDMB.com then that went paid for by Intel and became PCPer. Thanks Ryan Shrout you built a nice house though.
Then this one where I have been for a number of years buying gear and using the forum. I can probably date that to a 1000MHz AMD cpu. Before then it was an outfit in Manchester but they did not have a forum.
Forums rock, social media stinks IMO.
Then this one where I have been for a number of years buying gear and using the forum. I can probably date that to a 1000MHz AMD cpu. Before then it was an outfit in Manchester but they did not have a forum.
Forums rock, social media stinks IMO.
I see you had to invent social platform to link the two together. Not just the same really.
Like a house party or a workplace or a classroom or a railway carriage are all forms if social platform. Not Fori or media.
No difference at all, one just prefers a certain method and likes to feel special by pointing out the other alternative yet the principles are exactly the same.
Ego.
Both platforms have their version of you.
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