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What is the deal with RPG Facebook Groups?

Started by Toadmaster, August 12, 2019, 07:29:33 PM

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Kyle Aaron

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August 14, 2019, 03:05:00 AM
Dunno, I've never been refused entry to a FB rpg group. I've been banned from rpg.net and startingstrength.com forums, but it's hard to spend 20+ years online and not offend someone... and the only ones easier to offend than SJWs are Manly Men.
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Omega

#31
August 14, 2019, 05:56:26 AM
Quote from: Greentongue;1099302I must not be paying close enough attention or am in the wrong groups because I haven't noticed a problem.

I guess I have well tuned blinders.

nah. There are alot of groups and it is pretty easy to go your whole experience on a site and not see a single problem. That has pretty much been my experience over on RPG.net. Not a single problem and  rarely see any of the SJW nonsense.

Spinachcat

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August 14, 2019, 04:13:05 PM
Quote from: Kyle Aaron;1099358I've been banned from rpg.net and startingstrength.com forums

Story time! How did you get banned from Starting Strength?

nope

#33
August 14, 2019, 04:27:34 PM
Quote from: Spinachcat;1099418Story time! How did you get banned from Starting Strength?

He probably just went around shilling bodyweight strength training and talking trash about deadlifts... :p

Independence Games

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August 14, 2019, 06:04:05 PM Last Edit: August 14, 2019, 06:08:24 PM by Independence Games
Quote from: Toadmaster;1099256I don't have any photos attached to my account. It is a very dull account with basic personal details, schools attended, work history etc, just enough to link me to my past if somebody I used to know and lost contact with wanted to find me. I only got a FB account so I can see FB pages for companies and such. I've got maybe 2 dozen FB "friends" probably 1/2 people I know in real life, and 1/2 those from groups I'm in who friended me after some interaction in the group.

That may very well be the problem right there.  After enduring a long series of fake accounts made by people wanting to trash certain RPG products without having their real name known, several Admins of several Traveller groups (myself included) had to become more selective about who we let into the groups.  Other games also had been targeted by this same fake person and the other fake accounts they created.

Indeed, the fake account that was the most active had already been booted from non-Traveller groups before they targeted Traveller.

Usually the warning sign of a fake account from these folks was no personal pictures and very few friends.  So..that may be why you've had trouble.
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Toadmaster

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August 15, 2019, 04:03:35 AM
Quote from: Gypsy Knights Games;1099431That may very well be the problem right there.  After enduring a long series of fake accounts made by people wanting to trash certain RPG products without having their real name known, several Admins of several Traveller groups (myself included) had to become more selective about who we let into the groups.  Other games also had been targeted by this same fake person and the other fake accounts they created.

Indeed, the fake account that was the most active had already been booted from non-Traveller groups before they targeted Traveller.

Usually the warning sign of a fake account from these folks was no personal pictures and very few friends.  So..that may be why you've had trouble.


I was thinking more of spammers which are a bane in all walks of the internet. I didn't even think about rabble rousers who could create much more realistic fake accounts, than the usual spam bot account. I used to be a mod on a very well behaved non-RPG forum, so 99% of my mod time was spent killing spam bots. The stupid things can't even put the right kind of fake info in the boxes making them very easy to spot.

The lack of a photo was the main red flag Jeff identified too. Guess it is time to pick a photo and join the collective.  :)

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Melan

#36
August 15, 2019, 04:22:13 AM
Quote from: Toadmaster;1099258In my favor, I think I might have liked Bernie's FB page, so I can keep up with his cool rants against the establishment. That should be worth something, oh right voting for old white guy who wants equality for all, is sexist I was supposed to vote for Grandma Nixon because "boobies". :p
If you think being a "Berniebro" will save you from the blue hair firing squad, I have some bad, bad news for you. As I understand it, at that point you might just as well put on your MAGA hat and decorate your wall with NRA stickers and bald eagles. :D

That said, MeWe has been refreshingly free of political poison of either brand. I can definitely recommend it over FB, the now defunct G+, and definitely Twitter.
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