Steele
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Post by Steele on Sept 27, 2017 5:47:57 GMT -5
So I know there are a few people here on real-life Twitter, but does anybody else think it might be cool to have a Twitter/Social Media forum here?
I think this may have been brought up before but now there are a few more people here so i thought I'd put it back out there.
As it stands, the handful of people on twitter can interact with each other but obviously that is only a small number of us. Not everyone wants to go through the hassle of real-life Twitter but a forum-based version could be good to keep little spats or friendship or just general bullshittery going.
All you'd need is an individual post called something like "@poppashot (Jackson Steele)" and then you or others would post tweets as replies. If you have a real Twitter account you can always link whichever posts are relevant with the embed tool.
So what do you all think? Is it worth having one here?
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Post by IMMORTALS on Sept 27, 2017 6:27:29 GMT -5
I've never used Twitter so have no idea how it works! But it could be a fun way to roast each other, and do some character-angled jokes
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Post by Mongo the Destroyer on Sept 27, 2017 6:32:00 GMT -5
You are correct that it's come up before.
There's good and bad sides to it. From what I've seen one of the biggest drawbacks is (at least in the fed I saw) it ended up being where people put most of their focus. Like the rest of the board died and people just kept sniping each other on their fake twitter thread (which I dunno, gets sort of annoying to read for me, lol)
BUT, that's a really busy forum, lol. And it also might give people more of a reason to be here all the time. Though considering we have the discord and the chatbox and the discussion forums I'm not sure if it would grab anyone who isn't already enjoying the community of the board.
But, I've heard reports from other feds that once the social media stuff started getting popular (and it does, I'll admit that much); some of that stuff would end up factoring into the booker's decisions for matches.
There's pros and cons and if there's enough of a push for it we can give it a try. Those are just my two cents, lol
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Steele
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Post by Steele on Sept 27, 2017 6:58:42 GMT -5
Those are good points Mongo.
While we have the shout box and Discord there isn't really anywhere outside of RPs for the characters to interact like in character unless you get together to build a series of RPs, or put effort into a whole RP because you don't wanna waste it even though you really just wanted to give a quick and specific retort to one particular point.
I can't speak for the Twitter feed distracting people from everything else because I've only seen it in angle Feds, so there wasn't really a lot of emphasis put on big roleplays anyway, Twitter was already the main thing anyway by time I got there.
As for bookers using them to judge for matches and taking cues from them - that would have to be up to the fed heads I suppose. It's not necessarily a bad thing if we say "by the way we will count Twitter contributions towards decisions" as long as if anyone decides NOT to do that, they then stick with it.
In my mind, Twitter is good for character building - it's great if a heel can just post a quick picture of a kid crying and say "I saw this kid bawling his eyes out and I took a picture cos it's funny as shit" as it reminds you just how much of a dick they are in between their RPs.
If everyone was on real life Twitter it could be cool but I know we'll never get everyone on board, I think right now it's basically Me, Kira, Mox and Erez lol. With Twitter being so big in the real life world of wrestling, o thought it could be cool to emulate it.
At the end of the day though, as long as we've got matches going on that's the main thing lol.
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Steele
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Post by Steele on Sept 27, 2017 7:00:47 GMT -5
Oh and also if we did go through with this, we could replace the "News" forum with the Social Media one because the Grapevine Breaking News thread would work well as a Twitter feed, along with the official announcements from the individual Fed accounts
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