Poll: Racing-Forums twitter account?

Would you like to see R-F utilize twitter?

  • Yes

    Votes: 3 9.4%

  • No

    Votes: 16 50.0%

  • Doesnt matter to me

    Votes: 11 34.4%

  • Other: specify

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • what in the sam hell is a tweeter

    Votes: 2 6.3%
  • Total voters
    32
ChexOrWrex

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Thought about this earlier today. Would anyone be interested in seeing Racing-Forums post on twitter? Strictly about racing and current forum events. Nothing political or something that would jar emotions. It would be a cool way to get our name out there.

I'm on social media a lot and I would have 0 issues creating and controlling the account. We could have a thread dedicated to the twitter account to make everyone happy with it. Just wondering what people's opinions are.

An example of how it could be used is, posting a tweet saying something like "Spike just posted his weekly game. If you havent made your pick yet now is the time!" etc...
 
ChexOrWrex said:
Thought about this earlier today. Would anyone be interested in seeing Racing-Forums post on twitter? Strictly about racing and current forum events. Nothing political or something that would jar emotions. It would be a cool way to get our name out there.

I'm on social media a lot and I would have 0 issues creating and controlling the account. We could have a thread dedicated to the twitter account to make everyone happy with it. Just wondering what people's opinions are.

An example of how it could be used is, posting a tweet saying something like "Spike just posted his weekly game. If you havent made your pick yet now is the time!" etc...
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Doesn't matter to me. I wouldn't use it but if other people would, then whatever. Have at it.
 
This has been a great place for years. It could be just me but there's a pretty good family of posters here already. Getting the racing-forums name out there to the masses would probably cause issues on the board attracting everyone and anybody. This sounds more like a question that you'd want to direct towards one of the mods that has to do all of the work holding the line here.

I vote NO.

Twitter can be a great tool but it's often abused.
 
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dpkimmel2001 said:
This has been a great place for years. It could be just me but there's a pretty good family of posters here already. Getting the racing-forums name out there to the masses would probably cause issues on the board attracting everyone and anybody. This sounds more like a question that you'd want to direct towards one of the mods that has to do all of the work holding the line here.

I vote know.

Twitter can be a great tool but it's often abused.
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o_O:D
 
ChexOrWrex said:
@Johali we all know which one you voted for :oops:
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Correct. You won a gold star.

HELL NO. Remember all the trolls we got from Reddit when they "found" us, and when nascar .com and other racing sites shut down their forums? NO.
 
Im not so sure it would change the board that dramatically. I mean all a person has to do is search "nascar forum" on google and theyve got us. Then at that point its up to them to join or just scope it out.

Although I think this vote will come down to a generational difference and the millennials are outbumbered.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
This has been a great place for years. It could be just me but there's a pretty good family of posters here already. Getting the racing-forums name out there to the masses would probably cause issues on the board attracting everyone and anybody. This sounds more like a question that you'd want to direct towards one of the mods that has to do all of the work holding the line here.

I vote NO.

Twitter can be a great tool but it's often abused.
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I agree, I still haven't settled with the new batch that came in from nascar.com last year. The twitter crowd will be way worse.

This is how you should vote:

If you usually agree with my views then vote no.
If you think my views are crap and I am crap vote no, because there are people out on twitter thousands of times worse than me.

Trust me on this. The weeds would out weigh the roses.
 
Not sure why this would have to be labeled as a generation thing. Even older folk know how it works. That sounds more like a generalization that simply isn't the case.

Twitter can be a great tool or simply another form of mind numbing social media. I really like using it for information purposes but most seem to be on there to let us know their social habits, palate tastes and other non interesting behavior. Those are probably the type that would be drawn to this board.
 
From my experience (as a Twitter-holic, follow me @ztevans!), Twitter is great for getting information out there or sharing thoughts "in real time" (like during races!) However, it is AWFUL for having conversation and discourse (and even worse for having that conversation be intelligent and challenging). The majority of people who like Twitter the most just aren't interested in typing 140 characters or getting involved in a debate that doesn't include calling someone a poopyhead. They'd rather be asking celebrities to dates, sending death threats to high school athletes who didn't pick their favorite college team, or retweeting inspirational quotes that probably aren't even actual quotes.

Obviously, there are exceptions. I have never sent a death threat to a high school athlete or retweeted an inspirational quote. But handling a R-F Twitter account, I feel the benefit of attracting the exceptions would easily be overwhelmed by dealing with the rest of the crowd, whether they ever register for the forum or simply bombard the handler with tweets based on the 140-character text without clicking the link for context.

(This comes from someone who spent a small amount of time curating the Twitter account for a small website as part of an internship once. Not nearly enough to call me an expert, but I can tell you the traffic gained vs. the idiotic tweets I read in reply ratio in that short time was no bueno.)

Just my two cents.
 
I guess I'm old fashioned. I don't use twitter or Facebook nd wonder what the fuss is about with either of them. What we have here is working and working well. We self police, engage in discussions that rattle some and bring a smile to others. Opening it up to a twitter account would bring in a bunch of twits and who needs them.
I cast my vote in the negative and not just in the negative but in a HELL NO, negative.
 
I am a Facebook-aholic. I use it to keep in contact with friends I made through the very old Speedvision forum. We've known each other for close to 20 years. They are spread from California, to Alaska, to Maine, to Florida, and everywhere in between. I've even had the opportunity to meet many of them in person over the years. I've even shared hotel rooms with 2 women I'd never met --- but knew their husbands' names, their names of their children and their pets.
We had a blast.
Twitter is fun, but not as meaningful as FB is to me, and my friends.
 
I have an account but nothing interesting every happens to me.


Well, except for Allen sending me my Kurt stuff.


My life is pretty calm.
 
I have FB and Twitter accounts but have never posted a word on either one. I just wanted to take a look see and my response was, hell no.
 
Looks like an overwhelming support of "no" & "doesn't matter to me".

Would the mods allow for an experiment? @TexasRaceLady Say I create & manage a twitter account for the forum for a set length of time & see how this forum is effected?

Or is a plain old "no" sufficient?
 
I'd like to see some social media action. But some of the greybeards here (lol) might not care for it
 
ChexOrWrex said:
I guess its just college students
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Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm just the exception to the rule. I'm the only one that I know of in my family and in my group of friends that doesn't use social media. Older, younger, doesn't matter. They all use it.
 
Mr. Gregory said:
Nah, I'm pretty sure I'm just the exception to the rule. I'm the only one that I know of in my family and in my group of friends that doesn't use social media. Older, younger, doesn't matter. They all use it.
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Except youre here
 
ChexOrWrex said:
Except youre here
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When I use the term "social media," I'm specifically referring to what the average person considers to be social media, like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Vine, etc. Mind you, I'm not trying to start a debate over what is social media and what isn't - I'm simply saving myself the trouble of typing out all of the aforementioned site names every time.
 
I think what keeps this site warm & fuzzy is that we never feel like we have to conform to whatever this week's trend might be.
 
BobbyFord said:
OK, how bout this?
Two of the 26 people that voted said yes. I'm willing to bet that one of those two votes is yours. ;)
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Wrong again.

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So you just keep doin you.
 
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