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This place has tirmed omtp evem more of a ghost town than normal. Wherere did everyone go?
Maybe I should be checking the obituaries?
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This place has tirmed omtp evem more of a ghost town than normal. Wherere did everyone go?
Maybe I should be checking the obituaries?
Perhaps posters are sick and tired of the trolls and are frustrated that the powers that be continue to allow them to post.
Just a thought.
My lack of activity has been due to some personally difficult and tragic circumstances - and is in no way related to the board.
The even worse news is I SHALL RETURN
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I'm assuming you're alluding to me. Whether you like it or not sweet heart, I'm not a troll, nor do a lie. If you don't want to believe me, that's your fucken problem, not mine.
It'll be a few months, but planning to relocate us to Chiang Mai soon. Who knows, in my new home city, maybe I'll have a better chance of meeting of our many esteemed members.
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My lack of activity is because I didn't find a new topic compelling enough to reply to.
Out of town, but the presence of a very obvious troll with Beachlover tendencies does not act as an encouragement.
"I'm assuming you're alluding to me."
Well, as a matter of fact, I wasn't.
But if the shoe fits, wear it.
I asked you a while ago if you were posting using speech to text, but you never replied. It's just that it seemed very odd that if you were, the software was somehow able to distinguish between a word used in its normal sense - "crispy" - and the same word used as a trade mark -"Krispy ". No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get speech to text to make that distinction. I mean, how would it know??
So I'm presuming you are typing, despite being blind. (although why you wouldn't use speech to text is beyond me.) And that leads to other rather obvious questions.
How come "into" appeared as "omtp" and yet you had no trouble spelling "obituaries"? If letters were going to be typed out of place, then surely it would happen when you type a long word which is relatively hard to spell.
Why did you spell "where" as "wherere"? To do that, you would have had to deliberately type 2 more letters at the end of the word. Why would you add more letters to such a common word?
And you also neglected to answer the question I asked regarding how someone who had lost their sight all of a sudden would have nothing better to do than to continue to post on a gay website as though nothing unusual had happened to them.
Nothing you have posted so far about going blind makes any sense at all. It's pure farce.
Stevie Wonder is, apparently, going to make some kind of important announcement later this year, after he was filmed miraculously catching a falling microphone firmly in his left hand. It was an instinctive reaction so he didn't have time to think.
Perhaps you should think about making a similar announcement.
Yes, activity does seem slow and scant....
A short while ago I noticed that I had started something like three out of the top six threads. So I'm on a sabbatical.
But I do notice that quite a few members here start threads on other boards but not on this one. Shame as some of them are very interesting.
I believe S.G.T. loss of posters and posts began when the old board became this one.
I believe that a number moved to new pastures during the previous regime and haven't been tempted back. Thinking of posters like Trongpai, always a source of interesting well presented information. You have to go to the dark side to catch up with him now.
I'm not sure how the Boards used to work, but many posters now seem not just to cross over quite regularly, they also post the same post on two or more boards. There used to be quite a degree of Board loyalty. That seems to be no longer the case. My guess the basic reason surely had to be the subjects being posted.
Maybe it's all been said before...
.....and by the same posters. There has been a problem for many years in this respect; a dozen or so regulars communicate with each other, resulting in the discouragement of occasional and new posters.
A decade or so back, that communication was characterized by verbal abuse, leading me to suspect that these few posters involved knew each other, probably drank with each other and were playing some sort of game with the rest of us..
Now the abuse is markedly reduced, the impression still remains that some posters are friends or acquaintences and that the forum is just a gay Thailand version of LINE or Facebook.
Gaythailand and Gaybutton thrieve and S.G.T.'s lose has been their gain. Gaythailand is strictly for sexpats and sex tourists and is full of up to date info. for their needs as well as a considerable amount of photos, Gaybutton's forum I believe caters to an older crowd that prefers to discuss current affars in the U.S. and gives helpful info to those living and traveling mostly to Pattaya, having said that I am not sure what void S.G.T. fills.....There is also a 360 degree disconnect between this forum and the travel log part of S.G.T.
Then who were you alluding to? There's latin, and I think we all collectively dislike him, myself included, although I still don't think that's justification enough to ban him.
Then there was recently that SGlad guy who was here for a while. I have no idea if he was Beachlover or not, nor do I really care, but I at least thought he made some decent contributions. Nonetheless, fountainhall seems to have fucked him off rather quickly.
Aside from that, who else would you consider a troll? After all, there's only about 15 of us here.
Oh, and as for your speech-to-text question, I didn't answer as due to previous comments you made directed towards me, I decided it wasn't worth dignifying. No, I don't use speech-to-text at all on the computer. 60% of the time I'm typing code, I bounce around applications too much, don't really care about typos in personal messages, and for work related messages wouldn't trust its accuracy enough. I just use a screen reader called Orca, so it reads the screen out to me, plus every time I press a key it speaks what character I typed.
The reason for things like double L's is because when typing a non-work message like a SGT post, I generally type closer to my normal speed, and screen reader can't keep up at all. So when it says "L L" in ~0.2 seconds while I'm typing away, I usually won't even notice. Then when having it read back to me to proofread it, the words "result" and "resullt" will sound exactly the same, so I won't notice then either. There you go, mystery solved.
Oh, and "b" is the keyboard shortcut to select the next push button on the page (ie. Post Quick Reply), but obviously I forgot to unfocus from the textbox at first. Then I have no idea why "n" is there, but I'm assuming because it's beside "b". Other than that, if you ever decide to act like a respectful, mature adult and ask properly, maybe I'll take the time to answer in kind. Otherwise I could less what you think, but it would be really nice if you had the decency to use your 'silent voice".
Not true! Initially I stood up for sglad despite reservations and others including Christianpfc outright stating he appeared a troll. I was soon proved wrong. His more recent posts could never have been made by a young 20s from Singapore allgedly studying in Chiang Mai. The comparisons with BL were similar in some respects, but I have a feeling he was not that near destroyer of a Boards but another old groaner who does in fact live in Chiang Mai area.
The problem with this and the other boards is that it isn't friendly to new posters.
I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of new posters are accused of being a troll within the first 2 weeks of their posting here.
People read that and think "Don't like these fights, I not go post".
I would say give new posters a few weeks time, after a few weeks it should be clear if someone is a troll or not. Don't start accusations in the first few posts of a newby. It really discourages. (Unless, it is as clear as daylight someone is a troll indeed)
If everyone who had given a reason why there are few new posts recently had posted a new topic then this discussion would not be taking place.
I don't believe the first part is true, but agree with the second part. I first started posting on gaythailand more than 10 years ago. I read the forum for a few months before I summoned up the courage to post. There was not much backbiting on that board at that time but I was never sure how new posters would be received.
But I also think we have to be realistic that forums like this, gaybuttonthai and gaythailand are essentially vehicles where older westerners give their views on topics of interest to an older age group. Unfortunately this means there are few if any non-westerners becoming members. I believe gaythailand has two, one who posts he is around 55 and I believe the other is a bit younger - and wish this forum had some. But we need to be realistic to a certain extent. How likely is it that any mid-20s post-graduate student allegedly from Singapore is likely to be interested in becoming a regular contributor on any of the three Boards? Perhaps an occasional post to find out something about the gay scene, but as a regular poster? I don't believe I have heard of any in the last 11 years (other than Beachlover who was a troll par excellence who pulled the wool over moderators' eyes for far too long)! In any case, there is a Singapore-based chat room with vastly more members and threads that include extensive information about Thailand and all parts of Asia.
And as a final note, I am not breaking any Board rule when I say I wrote to sglad early on in his correspondence to inform him I'd be in Chiang Mai and would happily meet him to show him around. Since it was a PM I can not reveal what he replied. But no meeting - not even for a quick coffee or drink - took place. That of course proves nothing - but suggests a great deal! After all, Beachlover also turned down every offer to meet up, even for a free dinner with Michael who owned gaythailand at that time.
I wouldn't meet with any members either. Free dinner or not. And I'm certainly not a troll and nor am I Beachlover.
And having spent literally hundreds of days in Pattaya I find it difficult to imagine that those who live there or are there on vacation can't find something interesting to post every couple of days in terms of general chit chat. It doesn't have to be profound or an essay, just a line or two.
MFAS wrote:
"Strange, I always thought you were B.L. "
Really! Why?
Please God no. Well I am a beach lover but not the Beachlover. Haha.
In general I would say it isn't that unlikely to be in your twenties and have the desire to pay Thai boys for sex. Not every 20-something year old from Europe (or Singapore in this case) looks attractive, or can easily get the type they want for free. Why wouldn't they use these boards to find out about the go go bars etc? I have seen Farang in their twenties in Soi Twilight last year.
If he was not from Singapore, but from Europe, it would make it unlikely for me for one reason only: most students don't have the money to travel each year to Thailand for sex. So that is why it is unlikely many of them are a member of a sex tourist forum. They don't have yet the means to be a sex tourist. So indeed if a 20 year old European student becomes then a member that is reason for some suspecion.
But in the case of an exchange student from Singapore? Not sure what to think.
The TARTAWAN hotel ! WHAT !!! They've changed the name from Tarntawan !!? OMG this is shocking, and is obviously a sign that the premises are continuing in their steady decline !
Right, that's it, I think we'd better start a thread to discuss this shocking revelation of an enforced name change ( did they keep the old staff on from the old Tarntawan I wonder ?? ) and whether we're happy about it or not and most importantly how this shock might affect our members here re their long term mental health and well being. ( Mind you for some I think THAT ship sailed a LONG time ago now ! :-)
Ah but you forget! Sglad is not in Bangkok and so Soi Twilight would not be for him. He is - so he tells us - a student in Chiang Mai. Further, he told us in an early post he's not interested in the Chiang Mai commercial gay scene. Of what specific interest, therefore, is a gay chat room dealing mostly with the commercial gay scene in Bangkok and Pattaya?
And further, as I have said, why would he join a Thailand based site where the posters mostly relate their tales with money boys when there is a much larger Singapore-based site with a great deal of information on all things gay in Thailand?
And why is it that over the last ten years or so there has been, as far as I am aware, only one Singaporean who has joined any of the three Thailand chat rooms dealing frequently with gogo bars and sex tourism? Young Singaporeans have their own chat rooms, their own travel guides and their own network. Very few are interested in offing boys from bars. Their scene is far more saunas and massage spas.
Well, I don't know. I would have started posting in Summer / Fall of 2009, making me 27 or 28 at the time...
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Christain PFC who has left his mark here has become an avid poster on Gaythailand.
No doubt about the authenticity of Christian, PFC, he is what he says he is unlike so many others.
I feel very tempted to say that this thread is living proof that it's sufficient to check this board for news once per month nowadays... A sad state of affairs, really...
as for your Q: Right now, after a good meal of khao-man-khai-tord for 35 bt, sit in an internetcafe in one of the many RamKamHaeng sois @ 10 bt/hr. Yes, since late last yr this once lively forum has been overtaken in quality, quantity etc by the other GayTh one. Even the usual bitches recently seem to have left.
Sadly there is one more forum even more dead, which used to have much more interesting points as all that all-the-same-all-the-time newbee questions, and thats not gaybutton.
I have been accused of driving members away with my racist and anti-Semitic jokes.
A misrepresentation of reality. I hope nobody in Chiang Mai falls for your deceptions and tricks, or if they do, they report here. Allow me to post our email-communication leading to our not-meeting in Khon Kaen?
Indeed. I have been on the forums since 2009, and the same subjects are discussed over and over.
Yes indeed. By recommendation of a friend, I started posting on gaythailand in 2009. Since 2013, when I started my blog, I rarely start topics on the forums, but reply to existing topics. That's why my activity on a forum is proportional to activity by others.