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Post by trehopr1 on Dec 13, 2015 7:54:54 GMT
Enough already Bazhammer... I'm really quite over it and I suggest you try doing the same. When I feel like trading cheap barbs with people and one liner conversation I'll look up Facebook.
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Post by nomad on Dec 13, 2015 8:41:04 GMT
Baz is a good old friend from the old Delias lover school, I am sure that his comment was not negative to the ICF. He was just saying that Proboards is not as simple to use as facebook, which is true. Please do not call Baz " old school " he wont like that. After all he has just started collecting being a younger man, as he is now only collecting moths, I have heard on the grape vine ( Father Christmas), he is going to sell his Delias collection cheaply to me .
I think boring was a pretty negative comment but please still sell your Delias to an oldie old school like me. Have fun.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2015 8:42:55 GMT
Enough already Bazhammer... I'm really quite over it and I suggest you try doing the same. When I feel like trading cheap barbs with people and one liner conversation I'll look up Facebook. My original post was in no way directed at you, whoever you are... I had never heard of you until you took it upon yourself to tell me how offended you were with my 'brazen comments'!! Now you say "enough", yet feel that you must carry on your little tirade with yet another cheap barb... Please go back to doing whatever it is you do. Perhaps a good lie down would help... Cheers, Baz
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 13, 2015 9:31:42 GMT
Well...could we all try and get back on topic and stop taking personal offence out of words that initially were not directed towards people. Yes, this forum here is 'oldschool', yes, facebook is 'shallow'. Not people, unless you specifically choose to.
It's all about the question on how you communicate and how it is implemented on a website level. Facebook is a great place for chatting, getting information and pictures quickly. The upload fields are nice, easy and quick. Upon replying to a post the original author and everybody involved will get a notification in their top corner of the website. If you got a smartphone it will hunt you down wherever you are. For quick positive feedback you have the like button. But overall, it is chatting. Not saying that this is bad, it's great to chat with like minded people, BUT, try and find or remember that nice chat just a month later. You have to scroll through an endless amount of random stuff until you may find it. Unless your group of people has been kept rather small. There is no possibility of finding and retrieving a discussion unless you hashtagged it. Great and lengthy discussions, tutorials, on how to do something? Don't bother posting them , you will never find them back.
For such things our old school forums are still around, and hopefully will for a long time. A simple database, you post, you store. That's it, and it will stay there for the years to come. Several ways will make it possible for you to find and retrieve information, even after years in some cases (very often information becomes outdated, so you won't even bother after a few years). I will certainly stick with this type of forum as I hate writing up things and putting effort into pictures and then basically losing them just a few days after posting. I don't see them vanishing all too soon, but I do admit that some of the traffic is drained due to the all shiny and promising Facebook.
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Post by cabintom on Dec 13, 2015 9:50:38 GMT
Please folks. This isn't constructive.
I'm curious to know if there are any groups that get in depth with regards to African butterflies. I try to follow the LepSoc of Africa stuff, but the large majority of people posting there are posting about South Africa. Then there's the ADBD group, but there's not many active users there, and a lot of overlap with the LepSoc groups.
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Post by nomihoudai on Dec 13, 2015 9:53:19 GMT
There is the 'butterflies and moths of Africa group' which is great, but yes, it is mostly South Africa as the most active people (and people with a decent camera) are living there. They also had a forum somewhere, can't remember any more where it is, but that one is super empty too.
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Post by africaone on Dec 13, 2015 10:15:38 GMT
Please folks. This isn't constructive. I'm curious to know if there are any groups that get in depth with regards to African butterflies. I try to follow the LepSoc of Africa stuff, but the large majority of people posting there are posting about South Africa. Then there's the ADBD group, but there's not many active users there, and a lot of overlap with the LepSoc groups. - You can contruct you own group or site - FB is not something that everybody likes for many reasons - you can "contruct " your own net of interest by choosing correctly the members of FB you want to discuss with and join your interest manage a group or a site takes time. add and update information takes a lot times and I don't speak on the cost !
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Post by luehdorfia on Aug 27, 2016 11:57:42 GMT
Although I am only 25 and almost grew up together with Facebook, I came to dislike it a lot lately. It's filled with ads, the newsfeed is just annoying and slowly everybody moves to Instagram. Therefore I enjoy this forum a lot, and I think in a few years Facebook will be just a shadow of its former self, and ICF will be filled with all that valuable chats, pictures and links that are created here everyday. When I first found ICF I read almost every thread completely. This would have never ever been possible with Facebook. So keep up this good work! Cheers and have a nice weekend!
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Post by nomad on Aug 29, 2016 7:59:24 GMT
I think that sums up Facebook very nicely, thanks for that
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Post by wollastoni on Aug 29, 2016 8:35:05 GMT
Therefore I enjoy this forum a lot, and I think in a few years Facebook will be just a shadow of its former self, and ICF will be filled with all that valuable chats, pictures and links that are created here everyday. When I first found ICF I read almost every thread completely. This would have never ever been possible with Facebook. So keep up this good work! Cheers and have a nice weekend! Thanks for these nice words, and yes all together we are building a treasure of entomological information on the ICF, easily accessible. Keep posting new topics, guys !
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