This is the exact same thing I was told when the mods on r/SocialistRA refused to address weird ass bullshit the community was doing regarding folks in Appalachia (notably after nationals rejected us organizing our own chapter in WV for no provided reason and just never established further contact). No one is going to pay to go to an official forum for discussion. They shouldn’t have to to establish interest. It’s just an awful marketing strategy. I’m kind of disappointed to see that talking point has worked its way over here.
Respectfully, and I mean this as constructively as possible: the community is still yours. Y’all have to own that nonsense in any part of the org (including the subs associated with it) and address it. It’s not attracting or conducive for some of us.
I’m not sure I understand the “talking point” you’re referring to. Organizations have official spaces. The SRA has made it clear that the subreddit is not one of them. And as such, drawing conclusions about the organization from a space that is not its own is… not going to be particularly constructive. It’d be like judging LemmyGrad based off of what users on Lemmy think about it. Sure, they sound similar, their audiences might overlap, but you’re not interacting with the source.
It might make it clear that it’s not an official space, but that doesn’t stop the community there from being bad for the image of the organisation and making people consider the org itself unserious.
Even the fact that most of these people aren’t org members is not relevant. Rick and Morty fans are not representative of the show but they affect it. The sympathisers and “fans” of the org participating in these spaces are affecting perception of the org in a very negative way.
This was visibly a problem over a year ago, but it was the Ukraine war situation that caused it all to get much much worse.
I’m not sure I understand the “talking point” you’re referring to. Organizations have official spaces. The SRA has made it clear that the subreddit is not one of them. And as such, drawing conclusions about the organization from a space that is not its own is… not going to be particularly constructive. It’d be like judging LemmyGrad based off of what users on Lemmy think about it. Sure, they sound similar, their audiences might overlap, but you’re not interacting with the source.
It might make it clear that it’s not an official space, but that doesn’t stop the community there from being bad for the image of the organisation and making people consider the org itself unserious.
Even the fact that most of these people aren’t org members is not relevant. Rick and Morty fans are not representative of the show but they affect it. The sympathisers and “fans” of the org participating in these spaces are affecting perception of the org in a very negative way.
This was visibly a problem over a year ago, but it was the Ukraine war situation that caused it all to get much much worse.