DriveTribe - online car community from Clarkson/May/Hamond
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djdest said:
I really do not understand why people are so anti Facebook, create a new gmail account and then a new Facebook account using the gmail one.
It will take you less than five minutes, put any name you want, and thats as far involved with Facebook as you need to get.
It's doesn't make sense on their part why they would only allow facebook. Some people not wanting to be on facebook shouldn't gimp them from using a completely unrelated website.It will take you less than five minutes, put any name you want, and thats as far involved with Facebook as you need to get.
rampageturke said:
It's doesn't make sense on their part why they would only allow facebook. Some people not wanting to be on facebook shouldn't gimp them from using a completely unrelated website.
Means that they do not have to build a secure system for storing login information, just use an auth token from FB. Means they cannot leak your passwords. Smart move IMO.rampageturke said:
djdest said:
I really do not understand why people are so anti Facebook, create a new gmail account and then a new Facebook account using the gmail one.
It will take you less than five minutes, put any name you want, and thats as far involved with Facebook as you need to get.
It's doesn't make sense on their part why they would only allow facebook. Some people not wanting to be on facebook shouldn't gimp them from using a completely unrelated website.It will take you less than five minutes, put any name you want, and thats as far involved with Facebook as you need to get.
On top of that I suspect your average mentalist may well have their behaviours self moderated if they have to expose their FB details. For example, half the multi millionaires on PH would disappear if they were forced to show their FB account that contains pictures of baked bean dinners and nights out at Whetherspoons.
I don't have either an FB or Google+ account. I run what is described by my peers as a FinTech business so I am meant to be clued up on social media but I've looked at both Google+ and FB and I genuinely don't understand them. I don't understand why people would publish personal information and i don't understand why other people want to know this information. But if I wanted to join DriveTrine I wouldn't see any issue at all in treating the FB sign up form as the DT one and just setting up an account. With FB it doesn't look like you need to use any real data to do so? You could use a fake name, standalone gmail account and if it needed a mobile number then a £5 sim would do the job, the credits you could then use up calling your annoying neighbour across the road to tell him his car is on fire and count how many times he runs outside before losing his s
t. To be short, what would be the difference between filling out a sign up form hosted by DT versus the same but on a domain with a different URL?
rampageturke said:
It's doesn't make sense on their part why they would only allow facebook. Some people not wanting to be on facebook shouldn't gimp them from using a completely unrelated website.
I agree, but as I said, it takes under 5 minutes for a work around. Hardly a big issue really, and if people refuse to take that 5 minutes to create an account no more attached to their personal info than one on any other forum then they really are spiting themselves if they ultimately actually want to use the siteProbably got far more to do with advertising revenue than security.
Advertisers kill for this demographic, other than the 12 year old wannabes, this site will be full of people with sufficient disposable income to be interested in cars, where a lot of the discussion will be along the lines of "this 30K item is better than that 30K item". Absolute gold dust when tied into the data from Facebook.
The social media format is all about accessibility. The forum format requires a bit of time, concentration and sufficient command of English to string a sentence together. Lots of people don't have one or more of those things. But they do have the time to "like" a video about Audis or whatever and then be put in the appropriate targeting list.
Advertisers kill for this demographic, other than the 12 year old wannabes, this site will be full of people with sufficient disposable income to be interested in cars, where a lot of the discussion will be along the lines of "this 30K item is better than that 30K item". Absolute gold dust when tied into the data from Facebook.
The social media format is all about accessibility. The forum format requires a bit of time, concentration and sufficient command of English to string a sentence together. Lots of people don't have one or more of those things. But they do have the time to "like" a video about Audis or whatever and then be put in the appropriate targeting list.
If anyone is feeling charitable -> https://www.drivetribe.com/t/G0AdFSE7S5mDpd16ZglqW...
HappyMidget said:
rampageturke said:
It's doesn't make sense on their part why they would only allow facebook. Some people not wanting to be on facebook shouldn't gimp them from using a completely unrelated website.
Means that they do not have to build a secure system for storing login information, just use an auth token from FB. Means they cannot leak your passwords. Smart move IMO.t happens, attitude to security these days is a joke.Again, why only facebook? Why are real names such a requirement? It's evident this is not about security and is about advertising and marketing.
Edited by rampageturke on Tuesday 22 November 09:46
HayesDC2 said:
If anyone is feeling charitable -> https://www.drivetribe.com/t/G0AdFSE7S5mDpd16ZglqW...
Donedjdest said:
And doneYou fellas might be so good as to return the favour and that would get me public. Thanks!
I still get a DNS error from my home computer but can access from the work laptop. I have signed up to several Tribes but not the Clarkson/Hammond/May ones as I suspect that will be Tugboat Central.
It's a bit busy user interface wise, although I suspect Young People will prefer that.
As mentioned earlier on this thread it seems a good way for them to take advantage of other people's content.
It's a bit busy user interface wise, although I suspect Young People will prefer that.
As mentioned earlier on this thread it seems a good way for them to take advantage of other people's content.
One member short of going public... pretty please, help a fellow PH'er out 
Glym 9 Garage: https://www.drivetribe.com/t/KGjtAisXQxaPQd-Oui8q2...
Glym 9 Garage: https://www.drivetribe.com/t/KGjtAisXQxaPQd-Oui8q2...
Leins said:
HayesDC2 said:
If anyone is feeling charitable -> https://www.drivetribe.com/t/G0AdFSE7S5mDpd16ZglqW...
Donedjdest said:
And doneYou fellas might be so good as to return the favour and that would get me public. Thanks!
v8ksn said:
rampageturke said:
Why are real names such a requirement? It's evident this is not about security and is about advertising and marketing.
Fake names are more likely to post abuse and troll, real names makes people think twice.the data they farm on you is valuable, especially if its confirmed genuine, if they can grow it to 1% the size of FB they could potentially be looking at 100s of millions in income from that data and related advertising
Leins said:
Done!HappyMidget said:
Done!900T-R said:
Glym 9 Garage: https://www.drivetribe.com/t/KGjtAisXQxaPQd-Oui8q2...
Done! Leins said:
HayesDC2 said:
Done!
djdest said:
And Done!
https://www.drivetribe.com/t/Wt6Ay_0ZTpGzfddBZjosV...
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