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    Why's this section of the forum so quiet?

    I always notice how the threads under "News - Phillipine" get very little posts. There's stories here if they happened in the UK would probably run a few pages long with people posting, but seems if it happens in phillipines nobody's that interested.



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    Quote Originally Posted by triple5 View Post
    I always notice how the threads under "News - Phillipine" get very little posts. There's stories here if they happened in the UK would probably run a few pages long with people posting, but seems if it happens in phillipines nobody's that interested.

    I read some of the articles normally, but it gets monotonous and repetitive with phil news.....

    They display the normal crab mentality, only in a magnified form as, it revolves, normally, around jealousy between politicians , or Gloria, or businesses.





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    The UK folk aren't that interested, and the Fil folk are glad to see the back of it
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    The wife will read phill newspapers but ignores the poltics and sadly most of the other phill news is bad news typhoons, mud slides, ferries sinking and people suffering
    Oh lord why did you make so many clothes and shoe shops


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    sadly most of the other phill news is bad news typhoons, mud slides, ferries sinking and people suffering
    When typhoon ondoy hit there was plenty of discussion on here. Then with the Maguindanao massacre hardly a word was said. Surely that's a rare news story if it happened anywhere in the world, yet most members on here hardly had a word to say about it


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    Quote Originally Posted by triple5 View Post
    When typhoon ondoy hit there was plenty of discussion on here. Then with the Maguindanao massacre hardly a word was said. Surely that's a rare news story if it happened anywhere in the world, yet most members on here hardly had a word to say about it
    I don't know how much time "Sir Keith" spends posting news items but I guess it's a lot ; I respect him for that and I'm very grateful. I was new to the site around the time of typhoon Ondoy but I'm glad to hear it generated discussion.
    I'm a newcomer so I'm cautious what I say. However, it's beyond my limited intellect to grasp the relevance of certain threads to the Philippines and UK.


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    Quote Originally Posted by jackson.alan46 View Post
    I don't know how much time "Sir Keith" spends posting news items but I guess it's a lot ; I respect him for that and I'm very grateful. I was new to the site around the time of typhoon Ondoy but I'm glad to hear it generated discussion.
    I'm a newcomer so I'm cautious what I say. However, it's beyond my limited intellect to grasp the relevance of certain threads to the Philippines and UK.
    It's a bot that scrapes rss feeds from other sites, not Keith posting each individual news story.


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    Quote Originally Posted by triple5 View Post
    It's a bot that scrapes rss feeds from other sites, not Keith posting each individual news story.
    So you think

    I could change it to sport & porn
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    I've tried to support this section of the Forum, but to no avail. My post on food poverty has received no response so far. Is it really that boring ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by jackson.alan46 View Post
    I've tried to support this section of the Forum, but to no avail. My post on food poverty has received no response so far. Is it really that boring ?
    Not surprised as with the server being down most won't try again till the early hours/tomorrow.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jackson.alan46 View Post
    I've tried to support this section of the Forum, but to no avail. My post on food poverty has received no response so far. Is it really that boring ?
    Don't take it too bad.

    As long as the Filipino member's immediate families are alright, they don't seem to care much for home news.

    For them it is all balik balik, they heard it before at home, nothing changes, why worry...?

    People do read the articles, even if they don't want to comment on them.
    Check the ratio of views to replies....


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    Quote Originally Posted by triple5 View Post
    I always notice how the threads under "News - Phillipine" get very little posts. There's stories here if they happened in the UK would probably run a few pages long with people posting, but seems if it happens in phillipines nobody's that interested.

    It's not just the Section YOU mention, mate. About an hour ago, I posted a new thread entitled 'An [Almost] Pointless Story' ... about an actual incident that occurred in the UK. And, in spite of my being confident of it receiving a fairly rapid response on account of its (dare I say?) *humorous - albeit decidedly *NOT for the poor man involved - content ... so far, zilch!

    I HAD thought of including my extract in the 'Humour' Section ... but desisted doing so for obvious reasons. So I ended up inserting it under 'News - World'.

    On reflection, maybe my use of the word "pointless" put people off straightaway. In fact, I should probably have headed the article 'News [OF THE] World ... in deference to the (in)famous weekly rag!


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    The forum is still on/off at the moment while I fiddle under the bonnet, so a lot of folk will still be getting errors.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Win2Win View Post
    ... off at the moment while I fiddle under the *bonnet ...
    ... you're plaiting wifey's *tresses, then?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Win2Win View Post
    The forum is still on/off at the moment while I fiddle under the bonnet, so a lot of folk will still be getting errors.
    I'm going to demand a refund if this continues


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