When I came the first time on Asia Observer, I was attracted by its name, because I am myseft an Asia observer.

After a while, I was fed up of the shared articles and forums on no main asian topics and even someones with no relations with Asia. So I was closed to abandon to watch and to participate to A.O.

John, Rafael and others members, including Linsi, proposed a new structure. The one we have now, with political, society and more light topic is very good. I don't understand what is A, B, C, D... topics

The main problem is how we can help A.O. to be the main reference on Asia in the world. For instance by what kinds of topics to share in shared articles or what kinds of forums may bring a lot of people to see them.

For instance, Linsi has to see that when she shares an article on Asia security, it is more popular than dietetic. That shows that potential users are waiting from A.O.

Flooding the shared articles or the forums has no need. We are not looking for our ego, but just as to think : is this news or this topic forum, good for A.O. I have no other purpose.

Jacques wrote:

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Flooding the shared articles or the forums has no need. We are not looking for our ego, but just as to think : is this news or this topic forum, good for A.O. I have no other purpose.

Flooding is similar to spamming- can you mention aticles which flood and gives similar spamming effect in the front page?

I donot see any reason why you mentioned ego-
could you be more specific?????????

why did you say you have no other purpose?
i was talking in general not only about you
i hope you donot get me wrong-- we express ourselves
because we enjoy freedom of expressions.

it is about all of us- and you were exemplified because
you are the most active member, i think there is nothing
wrong with that, i only wanted to clarify my statements.

What is the main purpose of AO-?
i think that is sharing news and articles-

i was supposedly informing readers that articles and news are found in more popular news websites and people tend to go to eshtablished news sites by way of trust and habit.

therefore more people will go to bbc /cnn/msn/et..al--
and therefore AO must be at par with these sites
if the aim is to share news, features and articles
about asia- it must offer more than the ordinary which
i believe it has the capability to do so-


well it is up to john
i said everything which is in my mind-
if the admins think that the font page is ok
and remains that way then fine- he is te admin

if john would send me message about flooding
i always am open for it--because i donot see
any spamming in the front page and i try my best
to give articles and news which interests asians


i should know, this is about asia and

because i am Asian-



thanks-

<br><br>Post edited by: linsi, at: 2007/09/13 20:22

Hello Linsi

I send you a personnal message. You are my closed friend on A.O. and if we disagree on A.O. purpose we can friendly discuss about that between us

I think that A.O. and John need people like you and me because we are very active, and every time you shared an an political or on Asia security (my specialities) I was not jealous and I gave you the most 5 hiting point.

With my international reputation and my age, not only I am not competiting with anybody, but in the contrary I am helping young Asia watchers to rise

But even if you and me are the two much active members, we have to leave some room to the others members to express temselves. It is why I limit me to two shared articles every day. I could share much more. I encouraged a lotof our members to do that and someones did it. You cannot ignore that when you put a lot of forums the same days the others disappeared from the the front page, that means they cannot belonged to the most read. It is why, on my suggestion, the front page forums was upgratuated from five to to ten.

I appreciate very much your contribution. Just think about what it is the best you can give to us<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/13 23:57

Jacques wrote:

QUOTE:
Hello Linsi

I send you a personnal message. You are my closed friend on A.O. and if we disagree on A.O. purpose we can friendly discuss about that between us

I think that A.O. and John need people like you and me because we are very active, and every time you shared an an political or on Asia security (my specialities) I was not jealous and I gave you the most 5 hiting point.

With my international reputation and my age, not only I am not competiting with anybody, but in the contrary I am helping young Asia watchers to rise

But even if you and me are the two much active members, we have to leave some room to the others members to express temselves. It is why I limit me to two shared articles every day. I could share much more. I encouraged a lotof our members to do that and someones did it. You cannot ignore that when you put a lot of forums the same days the others disappeared from the the front page, that means they cannot belonged to the most read. It is why, on my suggestion, the front page forums was upgratuated from five to to ten.

I appreciate very much your contribution. Just think about what it is the best you can give to us&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/13 23:57

When you go and click the most hits--you will see that your shared articles garnered the most jacques- when i was still new here few weeks ago-john posted a lot of shared artricles
in the front page with 300 registered members-

it seems you always say about your reputation and age we donot discuss about reputation and age and ego here that is why i was asking about ego because you posted it in the public board, and we need to know what you mean.

and if i say threads are being syphoned to your created threads does that mean your ego?

if ever you have that high reputation,i donot know about. that we are talking about ao, not reputation of people, we
are here to share news and articles and informations

as a matter of fact john was asking suggestons- we must not dominate- my replies were just a result of what happened.

we are here for a higher purpose of giving the highest common good to readers,not only you but all of us-leaving and forgetting whatever reputations we have in our community-

if ever we talk of purpose, can i say i also have the highest degree of interest to give the best to the readers?
and all of us? all of us-that's why i am surprised when you say ego-

we should not dominate the attitudes and way of responses
of forumers,we should give them chance to express= or address the office of john in that matter- most news must be shared in the front page-as we wait for others to engage more-

1-AO front page needs more technical modifications- i have reasons to suggest about that john was asking suggestions and encouraging ideas about modifying it-that is one reason-of the many reasons i have.., giving the final decision to john-


2-if ever one shares a lot of news- the most hits will remain in the page there is no problem with that- anyone can put as many news as they wanted-and if that is undesirable then the webmaster puts the configuration in the database to control and modify- as dscussions between john and richard progresses


3-If you are helping ao watchers to rise then go on,why mention competing? who is competing with whom? that is the least in my mind and the worst anyone could think of-why say these things? why think of these things, i am surprised by the way you emphasise repeating these things .




4-if we can friendly discuss things about us then why put ego and jealousy in the public board? reputation and age? that is not in my mind. thank you for the votes or hits but i am not so concerned about that (karma is ego i can drag it down to zero) because i requested john as possible to disable mine in the public board.


jacques let us consider the office of john and richard to fix things- give them the chance to hear suggestions and act upon it- because the admins have the power to all of these things-


<br><br>Post edited by: linsi, at: 2007/09/15 01:33

It is you who choose to send an open letter to John. Why not a private message to him and (or) a private message to me ?

When I spoke about quality is better than quantity I was thinking about an article your shared some times ago on the Korean hostages announcing the killing of an on them. I was shocked and afraid that a new hostage could have been killed. So I immediatly opened your shared article. It was at least two or weeks old and a lot of things has happended after that on this question. And I have a lot of others exemples.

It is why, I said you again. We need you, we love you, but be carefull on what you post

Jacques wrote:

QUOTE:
It is you who choose to send an open letter to John. Why not a private message to him and (or) a private message to me ?

When I spoke about quality is better than quantity I was thinking about an article your shared some times ago on the Korean hostages announcing the killing of an on them. I was shocked and afraid that a new hostage could have been killed. So I immediatly opened your shared article. It was at least two or weeks old and a lot of things has happended after that on this question. And I have a lot of others exemples.

It is why, I said you again. We need you, we love you, but be carefull on what you post

if you would go back to my thread of comments about asia observer etal- john was asking about suggestions on how to modify the front page-

you answered it so much-you did not let him answer until now, you keep on answering when i am waiting for him, try to read it until now, that is why i was compelled to send john a letter in the public board and because he is the administrator and because he is the one who calls the shot-


jacques,

i will just wait for john's verdict. again he is the admin-

as for you- you are the most active member i am glad about that-but asia observer is a community effort we can only do as much- keep up the good work.