So... Tr Is Starting Their Own Forum.
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If it's anything like their Facebook group, it'll be sexist, bro-ish, and unreadable. Hard pass from me.
Another concern of mine. If a board member is responsible for putting the forum together, I hope they know what the hell they are doing. Being that big and that polarizing just spells a lot of trouble for the forum. That was something I voiced when the thread on FB was open. I don't want to see another TR run ANYTHING.
I'm a TR member and will check out their forum once it's up - but this will always be my home
group hug, you guys
group hug, you guys
Same here. I'll give it a fair shot but this place here is priority one.
Well we have a voice. I hope it isn't monetized. However, if it is I would imagine money would go towards whatever we want! I would vote for subsidized away trips.
Right now I think Third Rail has a bit of a trust fund. We are early days of that group organizationally so I can understand if we hold onto the money for the most part. But in a few years, after some experience running this baby I think we will see much more innovative uses of the income from memberships.
I can't say I'm too surprised by the move although it doesn't make sense given the great established base here and Dan's continued insistence to reach out and give them an outlet here. Just another thing that supports my choice to not renew with them.
It is what it is. They want to do their own thing and have more control so more power to them.
I have to disagree with this. If you would like to know why, I will gladly take this into a private discussion.
No worries. Although it seems a bit late now. Understandable you are frustrated given that their actions were inappropriate. I would expect the ban to be reversed in the near future.Manuel you're right. I removed both comments.
I will still be here...forever and ever and ever <3
I'm running for Director of Membership for the Third Rail and, while I have no knowledge (yet) of the TR inner workings or the rumored history/bad blood between some TR board members and some people here, I will say unequivocally without pointing fingers that all NYCFC supporters can and should work together for the greater good of the club. Now that doesn't mean TR didn't have a good reason for creating their own forums, but I think this infighting among supporters should stop and if I become the Director of Membership I'll be trying to reach new members everywhere I can including these forums, which I love. Where can you find better, more dedicated supporters than these forums? Hopefully the relationship between the forum members here and the TR can be improved in the future.
I can speak to a few of these points.
The main reason we are moving to a forum, as many people here have pointed out, facebook is just not the place for meaningful conversations and archiving.
The reason we are going to our own platform is just more control on our side. We will be able to maintain our databases. Dan has reached out and we have spoken about having a portal here on a few occasions. The reason we aren't going in that direction is one of control. It will be easier to maintain on our side if we have our own. What Dan and you all here have built is amazing. We just would like something that is our own.
It will not be monetized. I do not know where that idea came from. It will be free to all members. We will not make money off of it. We will use dues to run the administrative side.
We will be asking members to moderate the forum. Not board members.
I think that answers all of the points provided from above.
The main reason we are moving to a forum, as many people here have pointed out, facebook is just not the place for meaningful conversations and archiving.
The reason we are going to our own platform is just more control on our side. We will be able to maintain our databases. Dan has reached out and we have spoken about having a portal here on a few occasions. The reason we aren't going in that direction is one of control. It will be easier to maintain on our side if we have our own. What Dan and you all here have built is amazing. We just would like something that is our own.
It will not be monetized. I do not know where that idea came from. It will be free to all members. We will not make money off of it. We will use dues to run the administrative side.
We will be asking members to moderate the forum. Not board members.
I think that answers all of the points provided from above.
So will the TR forums just be for org business or will it be essentially a nycfcforum.com competitor?
My guess is it will end up something like the Cosmos forums, mainly unused and the ones that use it are just there to have someone agree with them.
My guess is it will end up something like the Cosmos forums, mainly unused and the ones that use it are just there to have someone agree with them.
