Re: If you were the owner of GS, what would you do …
I’m glad to see you in agreement with this. Such stupid looking imperial arrogance needs to be dimissed. I have never seen anyone being ridiculed by a group for not writing in perfect Urdu or not writing in Urdu to begin with. If someone doesn’t live in an English speaking country and English is not even their third language, why would you expect them to have perfect grasp of the language? Either you ignore their thread or reply, in case you’ve managed to make sense of the message. No need to give catty lectures. Posters should feel free and welcome to post in Urdu. No type of ridiculing or bullying must be allowed, whatsoever.
Secondly, I have seen the trend of quite regular posters getting banned, because they were either brave or stupid enough to piss off a female mod or someone. The sad thing is, those posters would normally make contribution in every section of this website, but suddenly you’d see ban next to their names because certain mod’s ego got too big for its head and eventually exploded. I understand the need to maintain harmony and peace, but if you want this site to remain alive and kicking, you need to stop banning regular and quite proflic posters just because some mod had a problem with them. The owners needs to put things in prespective and come up with better ways to diffuse tensions between posters instead of driving them away completely.
If I had any power to press the ban button, I would love to banish dozens of posters from Pakistan Affairs, (oh yes, absolutely) but even I know how stupid this idea is, because if I ban those regular posters, who’s gonna post there? Whether I like their views or not, those posters keep that forum alive. I secretly appreciate them for posting on that forum.