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Originally Posted by calgarywinning
On this note; how does CP compare to a Reddit or local Facebook groups?
While choosing not to engage the above mentioned, this forum has been a wonderful place to meet people, hire people, sell things and tickets. It also has the ability to uplift or some really cool conversations you just can't get anywhere else. Such as the Parents with Alzheimers/Dementia.
Perhaps the focus of CP needs to be in attracting new users and old users that are new users?
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What I like about CP is that it is a community that shares a few common things - the Flames and Calgary primarily - but covers a wide variety of topics. I’d wager that most active posters have engaged in most threads or at least forums over a longer period of time so are not internet randos even if they are anonymous in real life. You ‘know’ the people you’re interacting with or just watching, so even if you strongly disagree with a take it doesn’t get as nasty as the typical Twitter or Reddit feed. While it’s true that some of the posters in some of the threads close ranks in certain topics, in general the people who are called out as trolls are genuinely trolls just trying to rile people up.
For me, it’s actually a community, warts and all.