Forumosa poster base too narrow?

[afterspivak]

@finley

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.

Some of them are busy getting organized to try to change an unjust system in Taiwan. Example: this demonstration held this past Sunday:

Migrant Workers Hold Rally and March, Calling for End to Broker System | New...

Better things to do than moaning about this and that on forumosa. : P

Guy

[crusher]

I thought this Forum was left leaning, dam I must be extreme.

[bdog]

@afterspivak

Better things to do than moaning about this and that on forumosa. : P

Guy

Are you going?

[Dr_Milker]

@bdog

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…

Hmm, I suppose. But you don’t want to be emulating bad tones and accents.

[CTaitung]

@crusher

I thought this Forum was left leaning, dam I must be extreme.

no, you’re right, because most men put their wallets in right-backpocket

[afterspivak]

@bdog

Are you going?

The event was yesterday.

Besides, I’m busy posting on forumosa! : P

Guy

[bdog]

@Dr_Milker

Hmm, I suppose. But you don’t want to be emulating bad tones and accents.

True dat. The childish humour and simple topics make it easier to understand too.

[crusher]

Well this forum is free to join and post and there is a lot of useful information on here. There are roughly a few kind of members going by numbers I would guess

1. Lurkers
2. topic starters
3. interesting reply posters
4. disagree with anything you say posters
5. constant haters
6. occasional haters

[slawa]

7. 

[Gain]

@Dr_Milker

Hmm, I suppose. But you don’t want to be emulating bad tones and accents.

Most of them speak it very well. A couple of them don’t even have any accent.

[Dr_Milker]

@Gain

Most of them speak it very well. A couple of them don’t even have any accent.

You must have low standards for your own language. A few are not bad…most are crap.

[bdog]

It’s a good thing they are upturning the stereotype that every foreigner is a clueless idiot who cannot read or speak a word of Chinese.

[eCanada]

@finley

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.

well said

[eCanada]

@Brianjones

There used to be WAY more Taiwan politics.

To be honest I would say the IP forum is a massive turnoff for most people

Yep

[Brianjones]

Joe, Joey, Joseph.

[tommy525]

@Mr_He

Well, Mr. He has a past as a financial anal-yst. (IE someone looking thru a lot of crap in order to gain a brown nose and gleam a bit of insight).

I did a bit of number crunching of the number of posts compared to the actual number of posters creating the content on the site.

Here was what I found:

The top 10 posters have created 18% of the posts.
The top 50 posters have created 49% of the posts.
The top 100 posters have created 66% of the posts.
The top 150 posters have created 75% of the posts.

IE 75% of our posts are created by 2% of our members.
Or…

Half our posts are created by 0.8% of our members.

Add in that up to 7 posters among the top 50 are banned or have left the site. (They are Comrade Stalin, Wolf_Reinhold (last post 31 Dec 2004 17:03 ), MaPoSquid, Ac_Dropout, mod lang, Broonale (last post 03 May 2005 12:40), & Toe Save)

That does not look too perfect thru my beer googles.

How do we get a bit of balance in this?

well sadly for some tommy525 has stayed behind…

[Dr_Milker]

@tommy525

well sadly for some tommy525 has stayed behind…

Tommy…well, Tommy’s cat anyway…is always welcome here.

[lostinasia]

@Brianjones

There used to be WAY more Taiwan politics.

To be honest I would say the IP forum is a massive turnoff for most people .

I definitely agree it can be a turnoff: how many lurkers see that and think “Oh crap, more of the same stuff that already fills my life.” I wonder if there should be a sticky at the top of IP, “How to mute this forum so you never see these threads again” - or perhaps default it to not appear in the normal view? I don’t think the forum should be removed (didn’t Taiwanease do that?), but I’m certainly glad the muting functions have improved.

As for the narrow poster base: assuming that’s true, I dunno, isn’t that on us? If you want more posters, persuade more people you know in “real life” to sign up.

[Brianjones]

Just default it to the bottom or something.
Those threads , often two or three posts from you know who, all appearing at the top of 'active threads ’ , looks bad man.

[BiggusDickus]

@lostinasia

As for the narrow poster base: assuming that’s true, I dunno, isn’t that on us? If you want more posters, persuade more people you know in “real life” to sign up.

That’s a bit cruel, isn’t it?