NOV 16 2017
Well,
You are correct about the car scene shifting.
Your fbk idea sounds like a good idea.
Facebook is somewhat fragile as far as shutting down an account, and then a person has to go
appeal to fbk, and it's like dealing with 17 year olds.
The jerks who tried to destroy TR would continue to shut down the TR fbk account.
I emailed the people who held the passwords to TR's fbk and they would not help at all.
They wanted to be sure no one would resurrect TR's fbk. They left links all over TR to send people to their own site. They used their dual memberships to send PM's insulting and discouraging
new people coming to TR. The links are long ago removed and the jerks who posted them also
have been removed.
Tee Cee Sss long ago went under. Their site had no content and no one stayed. They had been telling me to quit posting and membership would increase, and they were saying it was because of me that people were being driven away. I did not take advice from people who wanted to see failure. It has turned out that my continually posting interesting things kept TR growing. 1,053 members as of 11 Nov 2017, and TR is at 102,754 members.
Some of TeeCeeSss had dual memberships and used that to insult new members at TR to drive them to their site. Some of those dual members are still coming to TR, and as long as they behave themselves, I don't mind that they join the hundreds every night who read TR's forums.
I have worked pretty hard so far and don't plan to take on another fbk site that
the jerks can instantly shut down again.........but I do thank you for the suggestion.
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Chris RX-7 It's not that TR died, it's that the social aspect of the Tampa car culture has shifted over to social media platforms. Forums still exist, however they more geared towards specific makes and models and the exchange of technical information.
Bob, why don't you run a Tampa Racing Facebook group co-currently with the TR Forums? It would not take much effort and could direct traffic back to the forum as Facebook's rules and structure are restrictive towards certain content.
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