Carlton Supporters Club

I think that Lods has summed up the situation very well, although I’m not sure whether the moderators’ views are particularly relevant.  BBB may have something to say though.

I guess it comes down to whether folk are comfortable with Facebook and giving up the anonymity that CSC affords.

Lods’ point about the FB page complementing CSC rather than becoming an alternative is worth bearing in mind.  Should membership of the FB page be limited to CSC forum members?

I suspect not, but it would be worth asking folk wanting to join the page if they are members.

Looking forward to hearing other opinions.

I’ve set the fb page so that anyone can find and read it, but only group members can post in it, that should reduce the numbers of undesirables.
Personally if we were to make the fb group totally private it would simply become a mirror of here and in my opinion we want to expand our membership/readership/contributors.

I'm not a big FB fan, used it a little bit but it's overflowing with norbits who want to do nothing more than throw rocks.

@northernblue When I visit FB I tend to read and not post, that being the case if there are others like myself can visitors to the CSC FB group see a link to this site without needing to sign up to the group first?

Personally, I see the privacy options of FB as often hijacked by bait and switch tactics, the few times I did sign up to the group I was immediately bombarded with spam and spyware, so I rarely do so anymore.

Yes again Lods.
Personally I don’t twit or insta.
Thanks for splitting this off into its own thread too 👍🏼

NB
I've just done a Facebook search.

The page doesn't show up yet on a search for 'Carlton' or 'Carlton Football'.
It does show up as number 4 when you search for 'Carlton Supporters'.

The folks we're looking to attract would probably start with one of the first two.
I'm wondering... are there any tags we could access to raise that profile.

I'm not sure who split the thread....but it was a good move.
I'm no longer a mod on here.
I've lost my powers.

At present I believe you can see a link to CSC Forum, could I ask you to visit fb, search Carlton Supporters Club and report what you can see ? (as someone who is not logged into fb)

The link probably needs to be more prominent
At the moment it is in the "About" section...but you need to press the "see more" for it to become visible.

I've just had a look at the TC facebook page.
It's been basically inactive for 12 months whereas their twitter page is much more current.
It may have been a deliberate move to the other platform. Interesting though that at one time it had 1.4k likes and followers...surely they gained some new members from that figure.

It's worth a trial, given the unstable nature of our site at present, and at least we can keep folks informed if the site goes down.

It's also probably worth stressing again that we face two issues growing the forum, and the long term viability and maintenance....and we shouldn't lose sight of the second.

NB
Are you able to edit the page so the CSC link is prominent in the top corner like the TC one

https://www.facebook.com/TalkingCarlton/

At present I believe you can see a link to CSC Forum, could I ask you to visit fb, search Carlton Supporters Club and report what you can see ? (as someone who is not logged into fb)