azkar
November 27, 2016, 11:18pm
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Re: Welcome back …
points noted. thank you. and welcome back.
as you said, GS has food for thought for any mood. there are easy, light and silly discussions and then there are cut throat seriousness of politics and religion. what makes us collectively very beautiful is our diversity of thoughts. all anyone can ask is be courteous to others and don’t let the heat of the moment taint your delivery. keep it civil and all schools of thought will be recorded!
Azkar
Hi guys! Azkar thanks for the email (and the reminder that GS still exists
Just a few points I wanted to address though - I appreciate that you want to modernise the site, and make it busier again. I wouldn’t mind contributing again because Paklinks used to be a fun place - I loved the wedding forums (and the ‘what you’re wearing thread’!) and I also made a lot of friends from this site, some of whom I’ve have since met or still speak to.
However there are a few things which needs to be done, and I don’t think changing the way GS looks or the way it’s run will necessarily bring more traffic.
You need to stop banning people for trivial things - a lot of fun/funny posters who were banned just stopped coming back because of touchy mods. I know this is being addressed but we need to see it in action. Consider unbanning the cool people and inviting them back.
Introduce interesting threads, not pointless samey, boring ones. One of the reasons I never visited Cafe threads in the past was because of the pure bongi people would write
Change people’s attitudes - how many times do you need to have the answer ‘divorce him/her’ whenever people post a serious issue, or people getting OTT with posts? I’ve had some really fascinating chats with people which just aren’t taken seriously because there’s too much bakwaas in between which drowns out the interesting stuff
Less of the favouritism - so many people who should be banned weren’t, and a lot of people were banned or restricted for stupid things because of how much mods like them. Give people a chance to explain before kicking them out.
I know this sounds a bit wishy washy and obvious, but it’s just a few things which came to mind when I saw there was a welcome back thread. Some of the funniest, bestest posts from the 90s and 00s which I loved were random threads full of really interesting people who didn’t get overly sensitive, overly judgy and could take a joke.
Good luck erryone.