Username Taken wrote: ↑Sat Jan 11, 2025 4:51 am

David Gordon wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:00 pm

so what's the solution

OP posts a question - asking for a solution without mentioning a problem.

That's a problem.

USA politics dominates discussions all over the world and at times, much more than others. And these are the times.

I really enjoy reading the political discussions on an international expats forum where you can get the vibe of so many people of diverse nationalities.

I think most complainers on here love to hate stuff - just because. But if it bothers them enough - they dont have to be here at all. And you would lose a lot less people if you do nothing, than if you over control for everything because then it will just be a watered down highly controlled lame milque·toast experience.

David, you know very well what the problem was.
[Readers please note that the OP in this thread was originally part of the thread mentioned below as "My original post".]

My original post was with regards a personal attack against a member by another member whose main interest appears to be nothing but international politics. The trolling member joined the forum only 3 months ago and now has an impressive posting history on political threads.

The problem is that over the years we get new members who have zero affiliation with Cambodia, have never been to Cambodia, and probably couldn't find Cambodia on a world map, join CEO just to troll on political threads. Take the time to pull up some of those threads from yesteryear and you will see the same names posting, but no history of posts related to Cambodia.

THAT WAS THE PROBLEM I WAS REFERRING TO.

When I posted the second post, which you have partly quoted, the post was partly tongue-in-cheek to make the point that if discussion of US politics was to be banned or hidden, then the potential new members who are looking for new political trolling grounds might be detered.
I was surprised by the comments of support in the Karma/Thumbs up. There was only one negative comment.

What disappointed me most in all of this was the way in which the focus of my original post was totally lost in favor of a discussion about potential forum censorship. In the end, we still have a member of 10 year standing being trolled by a new member with slurs like 'homosexual pedophile'.
Or is name calling and personal attacks ok now?

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 7:57 pm

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:51 pm

Username Taken wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 12:08 pm

Clutch Cargo wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2025 10:53 am If a separate section is created with personal opt-in, would those topics and posts still appear on the top of 'New posts' and 'Recent posts'? I gather many members may sit on these or view these firstly before going into the sub-topics. So it's sort of in your face there.

Is there any merit in creating new subtopics along the lines of:

New posts- Cambodia
New posts- Other

Recent posts- Cambodia
Recent posts- Other

NB Cambodia on the top and possible no need then to create a separate section with separate opt-in?

It would be the same as when someone joins the Darknet. New posts would show mixed in with everything else for you but those who aren't members of the Darknet don't see those threads.

Thinking more about it, I don't think a Darknet style solution is the answer for non-Cambodian/US topics. Coz whether you have opted in or not, those topics will still show mixed in with new posts and recent topics and as has been the case lately, they will show up on top. That falsely implies the forum is more about topics other than Cambodia. With a Darknet solution whether you can readily get in to view the topic or not, the topic heading still sits there at the head of the queue visa vie Cambodian ones.

I think if the objective is to redress the situation where CEO is seemingly becoming a more US or other centric one, then, I believe we need to put Cambodian topics ahead of all the others whether or not there is more discussion in the former. Hence my suggestion above. No opt in or out. No hiding it in Darknet. Just put the Cambodian topics first, other topics second imo.

when i open CEO:
it opens at "New Posts"

and its New posts by date.... latest is top
simple enough to see what section the thread is in
currently ( for me) 12 new Posts> Not 1 is "rest of world" #13 is

It aint broke
dont fix it.

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