Social Media

[dadsdivorce]

A few questions from the Webmaster.

1.) How likely are you to use the new facebook, twitter, reddit or stumble upon buttons on the side of the site?

2) What do you use for social media?

3) What would you like to see done differently on the forums (ie Features, topics, etc.)?

Note: In the next several months I will be updating the forums and the main site. Any great ideas may be incorporated into those changes on the site.

Thanks,

Nate

[defaultuser]

1) I am extremely unlikely to use FB, Twitter, etc. etc. for anything site related.

2) Don't use social media. Telephone, email, text, thats it. Social media is the devil.

3) Personally, I like the forums. If you guys were going to invest time in the forums, I think expanding on "The List" to make other sections, like how to handle a false DV, why you need an attorney, why temporary orders are so important, how to succesfully sue for contempt, how to modify, whatever.

Maybe add a forum on cases in the media and current efforts to change legislation would be nice.

Then, when guys come on and say, "I've been accused of DV, but didn't do it", we can point them to a really good reference about how to defend themselves about it, just like we do with the List.

In my opinion, the content and the help recieved is what draws people to these forums. Work on having content that is second to none and you'll get more people involved. If you build it, they will come.

My website consultant told me that FB generally produces limited results for lots of time invested, but your market may be different than mine.

[Fatheroffour]

1) Not very. I'm not a paranoid about letting the world know i'm here but I'm not advertising it either.

2) FB.

3) I'd like to see a poll feature where users can create their own poll. I'd also like to be able to embed video. (not saying it can't be done now but I haven't been able to figure it out).


While on the BBerry I also noticed a significant number of times today the page wouldn't load past the tweet/reddit/like buttons.

[BartSimpson]

Hi Nate,

First of all, thanks for all your recent efforts to get the pages loaded faster and the Sql fix to stop the "too many connections" issues we were experiencing. From a user's point of view the site is really doing well now.

Personally, I never use any of the social media sites. I actually deleted my Facebook account a year ago and never regretted it. (Note - deleting your account from Facebook is nearly impossible, which ought to be a warning in itself of the problems with Facebook.) I was an early adopter and when privacy settings changed from opt-in to opt-out, I saw the handwriting on the wall. I am not going to recommend a post on delicious or any other aggregator so as to have the flood of trolls that such things would bring.

Men's sites are vulnerable to trolling and a low profile is important to some degree, but the recent increases in spammers might suggest that a new member's post might be subjected to moderation prior to being published, for spam or trolling.

With regards.

[dadsdivorce]

Thanks for the response, I hope to get a few more.

defaultuser: I will make those topic suggestions to our web editor.

Fatheroffour: I am looking into this blackberry issue. Does this issue happen all the time on your Blackberry or is it intermittent ?

BartSimpson: Thanks for the compliments on the site performance, glad to know that it is helping. Also, I have noticed an increase in spam and trolling on some other forums. Are we having these issues? I will do some research on how we can safeguard ourselves from these issues.

[Fatheroffour]

The BB issue started when the buttons showed up and is still continuing. It opens the page up to the buttons and that's it. No DD banner or other html. Just the blue header and the new social media buttons. I'll back up and reload and its ok. It rarely does it twice in a row.

There's also a wierd techocolor banding thing going on at the bottom of the window when I post. Type in the text at the top then scroll through a long series of multicolored bands to get to the submit button.

Keep up the good work and thanks for a great site.

[Thoughts?]

Am too much of a Luddite to use those right now.

[miamorefreckles]

1) Not very. I'm not a paranoid about letting the world know i'm here but I'm not advertising it either.

2) FB.

3) I'd like to see a poll feature where users can create their own poll. I'd also like to be able to embed video. (not saying it can't be done now but I haven't been able to figure it out).
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Pretty much FoF said it. I have a FB and while I have "liked" the dadsdivorce page on there, I don't like to advertise that i'm on here to everyone just in case it gets back to someone and I get stalked (again). Granted I don't openly reveal much about me, but a person of moderate intelligence could figure out it was me by the timeline and some details.

Other than that I'm extremely happy with the work done to make the sight faster with less (almost none) sql errors! This site has been a HUGE help for me and I pass it on to anyone I know going through a divorce with kids.

[jamessick]

I have a FB page and use FB regularly, though I will agree that payoff for traffic by using a link from FB to DD may not be worth the effort, or the price. Having a group as a FB page is good, especially since all the articles come there. Good articles I link and forward to my friends.

As for the site updates, well done! This site flies now. Now I only get to skip half a day catching up...

We could use an avatar collection too, just gather them from FoF.

[jerry2010]

About the only suggestion that comes to mind is that of what default stated. I know that I am not alone in having to post almost identical answers regarding specific topics. Topics like false dv claims, how to choose a lawyer, and several others. I know that each circumstance may be different but it would be nice to be able to link them somewhere to gather the basic information for themselves and they could then post more detail about their specif circumstances.

Also, a poll would be nice to have as FOF suggested. I know we have one but it appears to not work correctly.

Thanks for what you guys do; guys like myself really appreciate it.