Future of the footy forum

[LP]

Forums are better for this type of discussion because they are more heavily moderated than Facebook which basically gets overrun with trolls when posts on sport, politics or religion are the content.

[LoveNavy]

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Tend to feel the same way. I want nothing to do with Facebook or Twitter and studiously avoid both.
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[Blue Moon]

I like this forum. I like the way it is set up and I value the comments that the major contributers make regarding the issues around the CFC. While I don't always post, I always read. I do get frustrated by the the negativity sometimes, and I find the down right abuse some people hurl towards our players is disappointing and I will often make my opinion clear on this. However, while I might disagree with what people may say, I will defend to the death the right of people to say it.
I say keep going. There have been dark days at Carlton for a number of years, with a couple of false dawns, however I think there are Navy Blue skies ahead.

[northernblue]

Mateinone, I think the people saying that they want no part of a social media integration, just don’t understand what’s being proposed. 
I think once they do understand, they’ll be ok with it, as I think you’re suggesting including the “option” to utilize and not actually making these people join facebook.

The anominity of posters is an interesting one, personally I think it’s a relic of a bygone age, but it’s also quite charming. We’ve had some wonderfully creative usernames over the years !

I wasin a messenger group at one point. It was made up of current and former CSC posters, and I noted that one poster in particular had a much quieter disposition in the messenger group than the testerone charged one displayed on CSC...
I’d presumed that was because in the messenger group we all knew who he was... But then again a quick read of FB will show plenty of angry ants making outrageous statements/threats seemingly without thought of anonymity. 
I guess to me the username/real name thing doesn’t really matter.

The only other thing I can think of at the moment is using the site on a Mobi... I’ll admit I haven’t tried for a couple of years, but the times I tried it was pretty useless.
I can usually wait to get home and use my iPad to catch up, but Trade/Draft period is always an anxious time, but then again the afl and club trade trackers have made it so that at least I’m informed about the changes, even if I can’t join the conversation.

[spf]

Mateinone, I think the people saying that they want no part of a social media integration, just don’t understand what’s being proposed. 
I think once they do understand, they’ll be ok with it, as I think you’re suggesting including the “option” to utilize and not actually making these people join facebook.

The anominity of posters is an interesting one, personally I think it’s a relic of a bygone age, but it’s also quite charming. We’ve had some wonderfully creative usernames over the years !

I wasin a messenger group at one point. It was made up of current and former CSC posters, and I noted that one poster in particular had a much quieter disposition in the messenger group than the testerone charged one displayed on CSC...
I’d presumed that was because in the messenger group we all knew who he was... But then again a quick read of FB will show plenty of angry ants making outrageous statements/threats seemingly without thought of anonymity. 
I guess to me the username/real name thing doesn’t really matter.

The only other thing I can think of at the moment is using the site on a Mobi... I’ll admit I haven’t tried for a couple of years, but the times I tried it was pretty useless.
I can usually wait to get home and use my iPad to catch up, but Trade/Draft period is always an anxious time, but then again the afl and club trade trackers have made it so that at least I’m informed about the changes, even if I can’t join the conversation.

I agree NorthernBlue on a mobile friendly site would be useful, I too have been frustrated trying to read the site via the mobile.

Your points about social media integration - perhaps I don't understand what's being proposed, I am not against modernisation but I will not join Facebook, Twitter or their clones. I briefly tried whatsapp and have since removed it, I was not impressed the contacts in my phone were sent information from Whatsapp when they have never used the service. The only social messenger group program I would consider would be Telegram (made famous by ISIS unfortunately), but it does work. Again I was careful about what I gave it access to but it does have a very good desktop app that works seamlessly with the phone version.

Posting links on social media the lead participants to our site where they can contribute I have no problem with, I don't even mind if they can return post from Facebook, but I won't be joining them in Facebook groups.

[Lods]

I think it's probably important that we understand that any future form of the site would be largely unchanged.
Links to a CSC facebook etc would just be that...links.
Folk who didn't want to access those features would not have to.
Anonymity would be preserved for those who just use the main forum.

All we're considering are some extra "bells and whistles" that would enhance the site and be user friendly.

[mateinone]

@spf

As per what Lods has just said I would not think there would ever be any reason that users of a forum such as this would need to sign up to any social media sites, I know for sure that isn't what I was proposing when I was talking about integration with Social Media sites.

[LP]

I agree NorthernBlue on a mobile friendly site would be useful, I too have been frustrated trying to read the site via the mobile.

So there is no Simple Machines mobile friendly view for this site?

I understand the desire for a social media based site, because of the mobile issues, and I appreciate FB and others Apps have this already sorted. But it's almost impossible to keep such sites securely closed, I'm assuming you want to retain a closed group.

Maybe the problem is Simple Machines itself, is there an alternative?

[bratblue]

A lot of people don't use their own names on fb. I use my business name.

[Amers]

I joined CSC just over 10 years ago in early '07.
I was living in Adelaide and tired of not getting any news about the Blues in the state paper, and precious little content from the Carlton website.

I joined, TC, CSC and BF all within a month of each other, CSC has always been by far the best site.

TC had some good training reports and and a Carlton recruiting staff member who would comment from time to time, but that all dried up and the discussion there other wise, wasn't all that great.

BF now has a guy that does some training reports, BF is also good for some goss around trade period time and for reading a number of different phantom drafts leading up to the national draft  each year.
I still visit BF but probably split my time 25% there, 75% here.

I love the community feel of this site, the type and level of discussion here is something you will never find on somewhere like FB.

I miss BluesGirl and her training reports, and while I'm sure we still have some female members still here, we seem to have lost quite a few too, not sure why...

I have also had the privilege of meeting a number of people from this site and watching games with them. I've never had a bad experience, and would happily do catch up's with anyone who is interested.

This site has been and still is a great place to come and get my Blues fix!

I'm not against starting up a CSC FB page/twitter account or whatever, with links to threads on this site, it would then be up to individual posters if they wanted to interact with those pages or just come here directly.

All in all this site has served me well over the last 10 years and I look forward to celebrating with everyone when we eventually get our hands on premiership flag no 17!!

Go Blues!!