Slitherine poll

[rico21]

ORIGINAL: MrsWargamer

Character limit. I won't use a service that tells me I have to comment within a VERY finite span of characters.

I am no fan of Zucker, but at least his FB works. I can make a group, I can make a page (I have one, it's all about an imaginary town north of here where all my Barbies live, no really, it's true ). I can share photos, videos. All the usual nonsense. I can chat with close friends and family. I'm easier to reach on FB than I am on my cell phone (it's usually not on, isn't as I type this). I can keep up on my favourite romance novel authors. I don't care what FB knows about me, heck I posted a pick of myself here sitting in a nice red dress showing off my legs I'm not really all that shy.

This forum is the ONLY place not on FB or YT I go to for opinions and chatting. And while not being able to discuss non game content lacks spice, it's logical. If Slitherine Group needs to ask a group of gamers a question about gaming, and they don't ask it here, well, that's sure confusing if you ask me. WE are your market after all. We are the hardcore clients.

I don't use cellphone based apps, at all. My phone is JUST a phone.
I play games on a PC. I even use my PC for my android games. Bluestacks isn't perfect, but playing a game on a cellphone is just a good way to wreck your eyes. The only time I'm not playing games on a PC, is when I'm playing them on a table

The proof that this forum is better than Facebook, Twitter and Blablatruc is that you are always there with us, for our greatest pleasure.[8D]

[Freyr Oakenshield]

Kids...

Who urges you to sign into Twitter for God's sake?

This is a reminder for people who already have accounts but don't follow daily twits...

[rico21]

Donald...[:D]

[sanch]

ORIGINAL: z1812z

ORIGINAL: rico21

ORIGINAL: Zap



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[Lobster]

ORIGINAL: Freyr Oakenshield

Kids...

Who urges you to sign into Twitter for God's sake?

Slitherine/Matrix if we want them to know what we would like them to develop. [;)]

[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: Freyr Oakenshield

Kids...

Who urges you to sign into Twitter for God's sake?

This is a reminder for people who already have accounts but don't follow daily twits...

Are you calling us baby goats? [:-]

You are the one who posted this:

For those of you who aren't following social media, there is a Slitherine poll here:

https://twitter.com/SlitherineGames/sta ... 3467274241

Why not log in and vote?

[MrRoadrunner]

ORIGINAL: Freyr Oakenshield

Kids...

Who urges you to sign into Twitter for God's sake?

This is a reminder for people who already have accounts but don't follow daily twits...

I know one twit I'm not following. [;)]

RR

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: Edmon
As a long time gamer myself, I am honestly not a fan of twitter... or facebook... but I have come to realise that you are basically isolated from a lot of people if you lack them.

You make it sound like it's a bad thing?

On most forums that I'm on, it is trivially easy for any user to create a poll. On the twitter poll, there is a weird selection of time periods, I couldn't really tell what they were talking about...they should be more specific ("Napoleonic", "Pike & Musket", WWII, WWI, etc.). Between not using twitter and not knowing what they were even asking about, I declined to take part...

[UP844]

ORIGINAL: sanch

ORIGINAL: z1812z

ORIGINAL: rico21



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[Neilster]

Twitter's OK. You just pick who you follow carefully. The live tweets from WW2 things are fun and it's interesting to see the entire war on a day by day basis.

I follow space developments very closely and it's very handy to see what expert commentators are tweeting and for not missing anything.

[Zap]

Twitter is censuring, along with other big tech. That's a big no, no. I don't have a twitter account , never had one. Surely, under the present circumstances I will not start an account to support them or a Slitherine Poll that chooses twitter.

[z1812z]

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On most forums that I'm on, it is trivially easy for any user to create a poll. On the twitter poll, there is a weird selection of time periods, I couldn't really tell what they were talking about...they should be more specific ("Napoleonic", "Pike & Musket", WWII, WWI, etc.). Between not using twitter and not knowing what they were even asking about, I declined to take part...
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Exactly! As I recall, there have been polls here before. What's the problem with making one here?

[z1812z]

ORIGINAL: Zap

Twitter is censuring, along with other big tech. That's a big no, no. I don't have a twitter account , never had one. Surely, under the present circumstances I will not start an account to support them or a Slitherine Poll that chooses twitter.

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[RangerJoe]

ORIGINAL: z1812z

ORIGINAL: Zap

Twitter is censuring, along with other big tech. That's a big no, no. I don't have a twitter account , never had one. Surely, under the present circumstances I will not start an account to support them or a Slitherine Poll that chooses twitter.

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[Neilster]

ORIGINAL: Zap

Twitter is censuring, along with other big tech. That's a big no, no. I don't have a twitter account , never had one. Surely, under the present circumstances I will not start an account to support them or a Slitherine Poll that chooses twitter.

I assume you mean censoring? When you join these things, you agree to a long list of rules that usually nobody reads. These companies have ignored repeated violations of their own policies for years because it's been lucrative to do so but now they've decided to enforce them. That's cynical but in the current circumstances, not unreasonable.

[TulliusDetritus]

ORIGINAL: Neilster
Twitter's OK. You just pick who you follow carefully.

Exactly. I don't have a twitter account (and don't plan to have it as I'm unimportant and people don't need to read my lunacies) but following some key individuals is useful to me. I call them "my gravediggers": they do all the digging for me = find useful (to me) political, economic information which they share. Scholars, journalists, scientists, even random well informed people are on that list.

Thanks to them I got a correct and real time (early february) intel about covid-19, which I used to warn family members, friends. Ergo twitter was indeed useful.

[76mm]

ORIGINAL: TulliusDetritus
Thanks to them I got a correct and real time (early february) intel about covid-19, which I used to warn family members, friends. Ergo twitter was indeed useful.

OK, but you could have gotten the same by just following the news online, there were many reports about it in January and IIRC the first mentions in December.

[TulliusDetritus]

ORIGINAL: 76mm
OK, but you could have gotten the same by just following the news online, there were many reports about it in January and IIRC the first mentions in December.

hmm, I don't think so. Not saying these reports did not exist at all. Just buried below a huge pile of "this is a flu, pack of lies, exaggeration etc etc etc" official reports. And it's clear who had the upper hand... until reality knocked everyone's door. In fact that's why they could use the "we didn't know" alibi: they were following the party line...

The gravediggers certainly believed this semi buried stuff and shared it.

[MrsWargamer]

Polls.
Inasmuch as we are talking about a wargaming poll... Twitter is about as far away from a relevant source as I can imagine.

We wargamers are a long-winded variety. Twitter is the opposite.
Why not pick a more logical location BGG.
Why not something like Reddit.

WHY NOT HERE?
If I was a game developer, the LAST place I'm picking is Twitter.
I might pick Steam, even if Steam is rife with bias. I might pick GoG, at least they are a massive gamer draw.
I'm picking gaming sites.

Not Twitter.

[rico21]

WW2...[&:]
The secret weapon...[X(]
Twhitler...[:(]