Hi all,
I’ll leave this up for a while before removing it.
As a relatively new poster, I’m already on my way out and will leave just a few of my old blogs here. If they start to get damaged in any way, or the abuse continues, I’ll wipe my whole board clean. This is a dangerous place to those of us with nothing to hide and willing to come out into the open with full profiles and personal photos. I’m now reverting to anonymity, like the vast majority here.
I thought CD as a reputable name would also contain above board posters. Having met anonymous seneca and his tag team partner coralbay, (or are they the same person), China bashing, baiting, fishing for information, disrupting and thread trolling, with accusations of my being in China illegally, having a sordid background, or being a paedophile. (I still have the screenshot) and no moderation, I’ve had enough. Looking through various threads, I’m not alone in my criticism of these anonymous, pretend teachers.
Deportees, ex-illegals, drug involvement, or those with an agenda? Who knows. I’ve already been verified by the PSB and SAFEA, without the need for further information seeking by anonymous China bashers sitting back in the west, whose grammar often doesn’t even sound as if they’re native English speaking. Also, partly my fault as I should have known better than to get involved with trolls.
I think it’s best I start to distance myself from a forum where there’s no way to personally stop this kind of disgraceful behaviour. Is this a result of my having criticised the same scam like organisation CD’s editor Craig Hill criticised on another forum, with the same abuse and defamation he got, or is it just behaviour allowed on a forum with lax moderation?
My resume is out there, I’m on LinkedIn and I’m easy to find. No one has to fish, I’m ex-forces, mental health management and British Telecom, with a UK Master’s in criminology, a valid residency visa and work in Northern China.
Well, that turned into a bit of a rant, didn’t it. No apologies though and something that I’m glad to get off my chest and bring out into the open. Having said all that, I understand some wish to remain anonymous for whatever reason, but they shouldn’t be the ones shouting the loudest at those who don’t.
To
the good people I’ve met here, my best wishes to you all and let’s
all be a little more kind to a country that has provided us the
opportunities we’ve found here, instead of listening to those few
hiding anonymously behind their keyboards and bashing China and its
supporters at every opportunity. Get rid of the foreign
failures
here, start to moderate properly and I’m sure you’ll have a lot
more posters join you. :)
This is a big, sometimes-dangerous world online. One needs a thick skin. I've rarely been insulted badly. I accept the risks of insults. I oppose too much censorship. We are adults and should not require so much protection. The more stupidity is freely revealed, the sooner it's corrected!
spams coming from blog or forum? I didn't even see enough readers on this blog site. Sorry for what you have suffered.
This is a wonderfully censored discussion, isn't it? Populated by nationalists all doing their best to put themselves on a higher moral ground ... meanwhile pretending they have never engaged in the type of behavior they accuse of others.
Don't worry, John. I know this comment will never see the light of day. That just wouldn't suit the nature of your one-sided conversation. Viva censorship!
I’ve no idea why your comment didn’t appear, but yes, I agree it’s being very badly managed. On every forum in the world, a forum left to itself will very quickly produce a sort of online social anarchy. It’s why part of a moderators job is to police forums and make decisions to stop it ending in personal abuse and trolling, because left alone, that will always follow. I’m not the first and I won’t be the last.
My comment yesterday was about how forum members should practise good manners and not abuse the system.
If the moderators need help to monitor the situation, I am sure there are sincere people who would volunteer with their time. Maybe the moderators are not exactly sure what's going on so the trolls own the forum.
@sfphoto
Usually, these forums have software that detects identical ip addresses. Maybe just a situation where it’s hoped that the more that join the livelier it will get, but that’s never the case. The professional trolls wouldn’t expose themselves, I think it’s more a question of idiots who couldn’t get away with their behaviour on any other forum that exists. I already know the moderators aren’t happy with what’s going on here.
Across the Internet, the majority forums are seeing decreased membership and participation as people move towards information sites and blogs. Ditto the search engines such as Google who are now including quality in their criteria. It’s like everything else, including foreign teachers; remove the minority disrupters, trolls and deadbeats and you’d attract more of those who would contribute something worthwhile, which in turn would attract the same sort of people.
What this place needs is a good clean up, perhaps even identity checks, leading to a forum where people aren’t forced to be anonymous and those with something to say take responsibility for the statements they make. Will that happen and does the membership really care? So far not many people seem bothered. I’m bothered and some of the threads and blogs here are really interesting, but the way it’s run now is not something I’d want to be a part of.
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