Forumosa poster base too narrow?

[slawa]

Ban discussion on non Taiwan related politics and only allow memes on there, are the way to go.

[RickRoll]

@Brianjones

Not enough detail. The immigration website has the database with up to date figures (for country of origin and residence ) somebody post a link to please !

Here’s the link you’ve asked for:
https://www.immigration.gov.tw/5475/5478/141478/141380/

[finley]

@Kavalan

Where are all my Filipino brothers and sisters?

Facebook.

[Brianjones]

Wowser, 260k of those foreigners are from Indonesia alone.

[Brianjones]

They all seem to be in the buy and sell section.

[finley]

I would guess most of the foreigners from the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam etc either (a) don’t speak English well enough to find the conversations here of any interest and (b) don’t want to talk about the things we’re talking about. I’m surprised they haven’t set up their own forum(s). I dunno, maybe they have and we don’t know about it?

[Hanna]

@finley

foreigners from the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam

I think most of these people are too busy working to spare time for arguing in any online forums.

[TimesThree]

It’s the same thing you see on other forum/social media sites. A small group of active users slowly use the site to reestablish an ongoing conversation regardless of topic. Hopefully the moderators are aware of this problem.

[Kavalan]

Hey that’s human nature right? The 80/20 rule and all

[tempogain]

Yep, you can mute a forum in Preferences/Notifications/Forums if you don’t want to see that forum’s posts in your Latest list. That will set all posts in the forum to Muted by default. It might take a day or so to kick in in my experience.

Then look for a thread you want in a search, and you can set it to Tracking at bottom left so you’ll see it.

[CTaitung]

@BiggusDickus

The problem is I can’t tell which posters to be nice to.

you just need to stop being a BiggusDickus about it

[finley]

Well … yes and no. They often work strange hours (eg., nightshifts) or do a lot of voluntary overtime, but with the possible exception of maids (who tend to get treated like 24/7 slaves) they mostly work a standard week, 40-50 hours maybe.

I imagine they enjoy blowing off steam the same as anyone else, but I guess they just have completely different concerns to old, right-wing white guys. I wonder what they do talk about? Surely not Trump and gender issues.

[Gain]

@bdog

When do we get our own tv station. I propose a banana peel for the logo.

There already are like 2 talk shows about foreigners in Taiwan and they are not good.

[crusher]

@Brianjones

Take out the wailao and maids there’s only 125k people on ARC. Very small numbers given the size of the population.

More that I thought , where do they all hang out ? Around Gu Ting station ?

[bdog]

Hakka people have a channel. Just saying…

[Dr_Milker]

@Gain

There already are like 2 talk shows about foreigners in Taiwan and they are not good.

That’s putting it mildly. I can feel my brain cells dying every time I accidentally flip by one of those shows.

[Dr_Milker]

@crusher

More that I thought , where do they all hang out ? Around Gu Ting station ?

Taipei Main Station and Zhongshan N. Rd.

[crusher]

@bdog

Hakka people have a channel. Just saying…

ICRT radio station it’s DJs are very diverse.

[crusher]

@Dr_Milker

@crusher

More that I thought , where do they all hang out ? Around Gu Ting station ?

Taipei Main Station and Zhongshan N. Rd.

oh up by the "American embassy " I remember looking around in there before it had been converted into a trendy arty movie theater.

[bdog]

@Dr_Milker

That’s putting it mildly. I can feel my brain cells dying every time I accidentally flip by one of those shows.

They are good for laggards in Mandarin, helps to hear someone with a furrin accent sometimes, seems clearer to me. Realise how perverse that sounds to native speakers…