Re: Cafe thread quality and standards
First, I would to say this: The threads you are talking about were opened by Impulse and Phatima. You seem to have problems with their threads, so I think it’s more like a personal issue than cafe’s threads quality issue.
Now, allow me to paste the descriptions of Cafe and General.
GupShup Cafe´
Welcome to Gupshup Cafe´, your virtual retreat at the GUPLAND. If you’re new to these forums, just introduce yourself and you’ll be having fun in no time.
General
This is the forum for your general conversation. Share your interest, ideas, your dreams (about other guppies) or discuss anything not related to above or below forums.
As it appears, cafe is for introduction, congratulations, all the best, and light humor. If someone is looking for serious discussions, general is for that. That doesn’t mean that anytime someone opens a thread asking a question, mods should move it somewhere else. No. If someone is asking a good question and it’s a good discussion topic, then it can stay in Cafe.
Having said that, now let’s talk about the threads you mentioned. Impulse opened the thread about punjabi people/karachi people. Here’s the link.
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=179271
In the beginning, people were sharing their experiences with punjabi or karachi people, which was fine. But then came some people and starting the mud slinging and inappropriate language. Some replies were removed, some were edited, and when the situation got out of hand, the thread was locked by me.
Shia and Sunni thread? Please provide the link because I don’t remember seeing such thread. If that was in some other forum, then lets not discuss it and focus on the original concern.
Now lets take a look at your solutions.
Restrict double nick —> No matter how many nicks a person has, having different nicks will not make him/her a better person. The person him/herself will have to change. If Shikra hates you, I can guarantee you that Sohail A will hate you as well.
Discourage one liners ----> What are one liners? Some examples? Those are the little things that bring smilies on peoples faces. If you come home and log onto gupshup and find no activity because there were no funny threads, all “good quality” threads, I think it’ll be boring because you know yourself how many serious posts you see in cafe. It’ll be even more dead from whatever it is right now. Then people will complain cafe is dead and it’s no more fun. Once again, if you don’t like the author/threads opened by him/her, skip it and click on the next thread.
Soft guidelines ----> Do you remember the time when we asked members not to open threads on ever 1000 increment of posts and all that? I am sure you remember what the reaction was. I don’t know what you consider soft guidelines but if you provide me some guidelines, we sure will look into it.
Overall, you raise valid points, but we already know all that. We don’t need another person pointing fingers at something we already know. We need the solutions. Give us some examples of what “good quality” in your eyes is. Give us some examples of what “soft guidelines” are. We’ll go from there.