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That was the point of the OP. Although to clarify something in it, quality of members wins over quantity, and that's where this forum can easily beat TD.
Originally posted by Exexpat View PostI like this forum because of its mobile-friendly usage. Being out and about 7 days per week and not tied to a desk in a factory office like some I very rarely post from home.
What I don't like is that there only seem to be about 6 members here. With so much potential, and with TD run by knucklehead mods and mentally ill bullies, this forum has a great opportunity to take over. But how.....
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The problem is, since the thread was started, TD's two most prolific attention & repo whores have tried to take over and turn it into a compliant wing of TD:
- Luigi, who replicates his TD threads here word for word and thinks that warrants being a nazi mod
- Captain Underpants, who sought to turn it into shitfest central via photoshopped memes then tried to gag his opponents via vexatious litigation.
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i think the popularity of thai centric forums is waning.
thai visa is a news based forum, and the comments are so heavily moderated by power crazed bores that there is little enjoyment to be had there. as an information source it is quite useful.
teak door has always been the disruptive kid at the back of the class , and where once it was the place for robust discussion, vibrant banter and classic trolling and run in a delightfully anarchic manner by DD, now it has become a place for never ending and frankly tedious shitfights (which, to my shame, are surprisingly easy to get drawn into) populated mostly by some of the most idiotic, childish and petty minded posters imaginable.
decent posters have deserted in droves or been kicked out, and with its humourless mods and their strange policies it offers little to attract or excite these days. it is slowly dying and surely cannot continue for much longer.
thailand chatter is a strange beast, a teak door breakaway with a very small membership, i dont see how it can survive without advertising unless it is being run a a labour of love by its owners.
political discussion is doomed to failure, no democrat is ever going to convert a republican, or a socialist convert a tory ... so whats the point. it either becomes a boring echo chamber of similar views and agreement or it soon develops into ever more vitriolic and abusive shitfights which have to be closed down by the mods. that seems to be the nature of all internet discussion these days, face to face debate is always moderated by restraint, but on the internet anything goes. look at the brexit or trump threads over on teak door. what is the point of bothering to engage.
that leaves the travel and photo threads which are always interesting and the crime and news stories which eventually end up as repetitive "arent thais dumb" rants.
and of course thai politics cannot be openly discussed, not that many falangs actually understand much about thai politics.
..... but please dont make this the new teak door, unless you can resurrect DD and get him to be chief mod.Last edited by TAXEXILE; 09-21-2018, 05:21 PM.
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^ They are a dying beast indeed. Looking at demographics, young adults use facebook groups these days, leaving:
- the retired, who are mostly occasional users and use forums for a bit of banter and exchange of information,
- those who used to live in Thailand and/or regularly visit who like to keep in touch with what's going on there and/or laugh at the below category, and
- Middle-aged thaiophile lifers, many of whom are fierce thailand apologists and abandoned the west before having an adulthood there thus are heavily invested in their compensatory virtual western society. This group forms the bulk of the 100+ posts per week brigade
Originally posted by TAXEXILE View Postthailand chatter is a strange beast, a teak door breakaway with a very small membership, i dont see how it can survive without advertising unless it is being run a a labour of love by its owners.
Thankfully it's never gone down the route of being funded by the adverts of online pimps.Last edited by Exexpat; 09-21-2018, 06:41 PM.
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Thankfully it's never gone down the route of being funded by the adverts of online pimps
permanently placed ads seem to be rarer and rarer these days, with google generated pop ups related to post content taking over. imagine the kind of ads generated if the pissflap thread used those....... mental health facilities, incontinence pads, sex aids, care homes, divorce lawyers, hair implants and err .. bournemouth real estate.
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Originally posted by TAXEXILE View Postteakdoor.......humourless mods and their strange policies
thailand chatter is a teak door breakaway with a very small membership
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Originally posted by TAXEXILE View Posti think the popularity of thai centric forums is waning.
..... but please dont make this the new teak door, unless you can resurrect DD and get him to be chief mod.
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Originally posted by Pat View Postif TV buys it, there could be a section of TV called 'the teak door'
Imagine the repo gang battling through all that
But nazi mods overseeing it from TV will soon spoil everything, and all that adblock disabling bullshit
TVF is pretty much dead, boys & girl. The forum topics are as lame as can be with < half a dozen posters contributing. They are shit-scared to raise some real threads of topical interest for fear there will be massive trolling/spamming taking place. Moi drops in from time to time with a "drive by" just to show the face with a comment or two which sets the leftist whack-jobs frothing at the mouth. All they need to do is just see my avatar (same one as here) and they go nuclear!
DD would have had a chuckle to two at the situation there these days.God, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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Originally posted by Pat View PostLast time I looked, Ijustwannapreach was still a mod, deleting anything remotely unhomosexualGod, the panic within the Dems, MSM, and left must be horrifying...realizing that Joe is really the best they've got.
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Originally posted by TAXEXILE View Postwith google generated pop ups related to post content taking over. imagine the kind of ads generated if the pissflap thread used those....... mental health facilities, incontinence pads, sex aids, care homes, divorce lawyers, hair implants and err .. bournemouth real estate.
Energizer batteries, Fencing repair & supplies, McDonalds, Amazons Grooming Teenagers boxset, MyFitnessPal gold membership, Mental health counselling hotline, Pollution control air purifiers, Somchais discount tattoo parlour, Ancestry.co.scot, Odd shaped pointy headed hats & hair-pieces, Butthurt & Snowflake lawyers
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