The Facebook 3D Printing Group likes to have their fun.
Would you provide a link for that group? Thanks!
It’s kinda frustrating not joking about $300 printers. The same question gets asked 10 times a day. I think that either search history sucks or people just don’t look. And if you say something about it you’re likely to get banned or trolled. If this group is printing 202 that would be 101.
Our group is awesome! we only charge $0.04 per question. 
Ohhhh! Ad revenue.
I think we may setup a wiki or reopen our original fourm. The G+ communities do not have titles. That makes searching for an answer difficult, as the search seeks every word written in the post, instead of only the titles.
There’s categories. But it’s not forum like at all, agreed. I hosted discourse ones some time back, that’s my favorite. Phpbb is bleh, especially with lack of spam filters.
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There is a lot to be said for self hosted forums. I still have a big car guys forum running with php-fusion but it’s lack of mobile support is killing it. The up side is admins can set spam and blocking filters as they want. The Facebook forum is popular because of Facebook integration not content (imho) g+ is a much more functional platform and if I post something here it’s not just for everyone else’s benefit I may go back in 6 months to find my post and remind myself how I did something. That’s what shared knowledge is about, right?
I find the FB group too spammy , unstructured and too full of trolls, as Facebook usually is. It can be good for a giggle now and again though. If I want something technical, I will always use G+ first as you will usually find someone to be able to give a clear and concise answer opposed to “hur lol you fail bruv” far too many cockwombles for my liking.
reddit /r/3DPrinting started just pinning a recommendation thread to the top. I don’t think it stops all the extra threads in itself but it probably helps a lot.
The fb group has that pinned too. No one reads it.
Yeah FB is ridiculously annoying with tons of newbies giving incredibly bad advice.
One time a guy was having problems print ABS… At 255C! Then someone came on and told him that people “normally” print it around 270C! Ugh. (And the pictures obviously showed the nozzle was running too hot)
Newbs that don’t read calibration articles and give advice that’s opposite to the solution.
And after they try out the advice, those poor people get frustrated and want to “smash my printer with a hammer.”
FB doesn’t have the technical roots G+ has.