So many have fled this board, Christian PFC caused harm now this charade diminishes further the relevance of this board, it is a shame.
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So many have fled this board, Christian PFC caused harm now this charade diminishes further the relevance of this board, it is a shame.
I agree the relevance of this thread in a gay thailand board totally defeats me. Who the hell cares what groceries anyone else buys?
I cannot work out how christianpfc has caused harm, though. Everyone who posts here has his opinions. That's why they post, isn't it? Some threads develop into interesting discussions/observations with arguments reasonably presented. Others are one-liners, quips, stupid comments, put downs and whatever a poster wants to add. Occasional seemingly outrageous ding dongs, in the view of some, help spice up a Board. Others believe they devalue it.
Despite that fact that many threads on Sawatdee have several thousand views, I agree that it does seem the hard core of posters is now very small and getting smaller. A year or so ago I would have said the same of the other two main gay Thailand boards, but that is no longer the case with gaythailand.com where active posters have considerably increased. It seems to me the key difference is that gt.com posters spend probably as much as 75% of their time on long trip reports to Bangkok and Pattaya with a lot of sex and nightlife detail, with issues relating to gay massage coming a close second.
As the hard core of posters continues to drop off, the more any Board tends to become overly inward looking. And then when there are new posters, in some cases – as recently with sglad – there is a suspicion that, to oversimplify, because they happen not to live in the Pattaya/Bangkok axis or be of a ‘certain age’, they are looked upon by some as trolls.
That said, I have absolutely no idea how to get more readers to post.
Go back to the end of the original forum and see what is in "The Holding Room"..if you don't know how ask Surf?
To me, it makes total sense. I can touch-type, and the process of thought is differnt when you type compared to talking. I can tyhpe fluently, but have to stop to think when using voice recognition. The typos make sense as well, this current tesxt, I typed witho closed eyex and did not correct mistakes afterwards, in this case I'm with CDNmatt, .
A link - if one exists - would be nice. Failing that some basic idea of what is in that post/site would be useful to readers! This is directed generally - but isn't the failure to provide any link or info (witness quite a few posts over the months) just another sign of SGT evolving into its own private little club? Can general readers who are not registered actually check with Surfcrest?
Groceries, farts, strangest things eaten....what is happening to SGT? If the OP would just reveal what groceries he got, perhaps this thread could die a peaceful death.
I think cndmatt is just playing a game. Waste of time.
I think some people's knickers need untwisting.
I don't see Matt's post as being a mundane post about his groceries which doesnt belong in the forum. As I see it, it's about how asking a Thai to fetch things for you will invariably result in them getting the stuff THEY decide you should have rather than what you asked for, and I can certainly identify with that.
As for whether he's blind, short sighted, or has 20-20 vision I really dont care as I take very little that's said here seriously enough to kink my frillies over it.
On the subject of other boards, GayThailand may be seen by some as a more "intellectual" board but they have their own bun fights and you're as likely to get stabbed to death over there as you are here.
The difference is we stab you from the FRONT on SGT. Wouldn't you agree Founty?
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Scottish wrote:
"I don't see Matt's post as being a mundane post about his groceries which doesnt belong in the forum. As I see it, it's about how asking a Thai to fetch things for you will invariably result in them getting the stuff THEY decide you should have rather than what you asked for, and I can certainly identify with that."
I agree with Scottish. I think it was a fair and interesting post and question inviting some (hopefully) humourous replies. And bobsaigon, perhaps you could start an interesting thread rather than whinge that the available ones are not to your liking. Most interesting thing you've eaten was started by me. Thailand has plenty of unusual things to eat so what's your problem?