06-14-2021, 03:36 AM
(06-13-2021, 11:15 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-12-2021, 12:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(06-12-2021, 11:26 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-12-2021, 11:20 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: The Phony Fourth thread was archived, and was started by Zarathustra back in 2003. For some reason the name "Sean" comes to mind. Whatever his actual name, he mentioned a guinea pig named Siren.
That would be Sean Love. He's still active on the hidden Facebook group.
And in the new open facebook fourth-turning discussion group.
I can't see how Facebook works as a discussion forum though. It's "post your opinion", then someone else does the same. It's not threaded (unless you make a point of replying to someone specific). Even then, not so much.
True, but discussions certainly happen on FB forums. I have belonged to a number of them. This forum has its good points, including the threads; but also many drawbacks. It is sparsely populated now, and has too many trolls (Classic Xer, Einzige, Cynic Hero, the libertarian guy with a thousand names, and others). It is hard to use too; you have to expand the writing panel every time you answer a post in order to see anything you're responding to, for example. And a tiny little link at the bottom of the page is what you have to see in order to quote a post. And the letters in a post are too small on a phone, cutting off many potential participants these days. And so on. Probably nobody can change these characteristics, even supposing they are willing to do it.
But, the secret group is also a FB forum, so the new discussion forum deserves first mention over Ryen W. Thomas' domain of his chosen "friends".