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RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:43 pm
by 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]
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 2:52 pm
by 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...
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:41 pm
by rico21
Donald...[:D]
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 4:56 pm
by sanch
ORIGINAL: z1812z
ORIGINAL: rico21
ORIGINAL: Zap
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RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 6:06 pm
by 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. [;)]
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:05 pm
by 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:
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 7:48 pm
by 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
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:10 pm
by 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...
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:48 pm
by UP844
ORIGINAL: sanch
ORIGINAL: z1812z
ORIGINAL: rico21
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RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 8:58 pm
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 9:31 pm
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:21 pm
by 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?
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:22 pm
by 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.
+1
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:27 pm
by 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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RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 8:50 am
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 9:50 am
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 10:56 am
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:23 am
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:34 am
by 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.
RE: Slitherine poll
Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:44 pm
by rico21
WW2...[&:]
The secret weapon...[X(]
Twhitler...[:(]