Posted by: Captain Haddock September 25, 2007
Why so called intellectuals stop writing on sajha?
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I don't know why Ashu, Nepe, Sitara, John, Sum Off (sorry if I missed any one else mentioned) left or write less frequently or participate less, but I have a suggestion about how Sajha might be to attract good content: positive discrimination in favor of such good content. To me it is rather odd that a fine piece of work by a Sum Off or an Ashu or Rahul Bhai would need to compete for views and posts on the home page in the same way as a thread trashing someone or something. I think it's about time we had groups on Sajha and content was organized into groups. San bro or some one else could then play the role of an editor or facilitator and select say 10 or 20 threads that reflected good content and feature them on the home page. Sulekha has done this quite successfully and I find that site, which started as a bulletin board, pretty much on the lines of Sajha, continues to attract good content. To me it's a bit ridiculous that there are ten thread about Prashant Tamang listed one after another followed by ten threads about Nepali politics listed right after. Between them they fill up almost everything on the home page. Why not have two groups instead - in this case one for Prashant and one for Maosist - with say 20 threads under them? Small wonder content gets lost when the basis for pushing a thread up is the last update date/time. Anyways, it's just a thought. I cant say for sure if this will bring back posters or retain those who exists, but I think it has a good chance of doing so if the site is reorganized around this principle given what we've seen on social networking sites that have been runaway successes. :)
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