Posted by: San March 1, 2010
Decaying Sajha
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Raju and all,

There were a lot of significant issues raised here in this thread. This, coupled with the goodwill shown by few sajha friends have prompted me to put in a system of 'downvoting' or 'disliking' a post so that it does not show up on homepage which represents sajha to the world.

Thank you again for your goodwill towards sajha, which has, time and again, helped sajha become different from other Nepali sites and helped make it stand out in a class of it's own.

I feel that the test of time has shown that sajha has been able to retain many Nepalis who have a common attribute of deep, unwavering love for our motherland. Nepalis who are concerned at their core at the faltering state of politics and the increasing lawlessness that our land is witnessing. Nepalis who are dismayed at the rate of decrepitude of humanity. A lot of Nepalis visiting sajha are mostly based outside of Nepal and the discussions in sajha serve to keep a lot us living abroad, connected to the Nepali way of life and thoughts. One very common bond among each one of us is education - for it seems like an adequate amount of education has kept us longing for what someone else comes up with to share, or for us to personally share what we know amidst the realms of the sajha virtual world.

I believe that most visitors of sajha are much different from visitors of sites where they have model pictures to attract crowds or list of nepali tv serials to attract visitors who like to watch tv serials or simply to read news. I would not be wrong to say that sajha attracts a "thinking" crowd - who thrive on thinking of new opportunities and open to different means of open communications rather than just be a mere watcher of tv serials or page through model pictures. I believe that the repetitive visitors of sajha are the ones who will not follow politicians blindly into ratnapark  - without questioning or believing in what they stand for.

Yes we have a lot of fun here. Fun loving does not necessarily mean one is lackluster in intelligence. In fact a healthy level of fun is good for everyone. It is the ones that do not respect the right of others, that become concerning. I think most of the time these kind of outbursts in sajha subside on their own because those are not encouraged by the combined interests of the visitors here who thrive more on intellectual stimulation and not by cheap comedy or cheap activities which only show the involved person's inability to get a grip on reality.

Someone remarked earlier in this thread that sajha does not have any fans in facebook and I wanted to briefly address that. It was never sajha's goal to be the number one visited site or the number 1 popular site. If sajha wanted to be a number one visited site, it could easily become one by implementing visitor attracting strategies like having sections for modelling semi nute pictures of girls, news, recording TV programs and showing on site. Quantity is not what is interesting for sajha. For me, quality is more important and with the law of averages the average quality tends to go down with increased quantity. Hence the main focus of sajha is the kurakani which promotes more of the thinking and educated crowd who love Nepal, rather than trying to bring in visitor demographics who are more interested in looking at tons of semi nude models to pass their time.

This is the reason why advertisers with end up advertising in sajha and paying more than other sites because advertisers get a very small return on their investment on other sites where visitors generally go to consume the pictures or the videos and leave when they are done - unlike in sajha where lot of visitors actually stick around for major parts of their days at work checking and rechecking to see if more interesting things have been shared. In addition the demographics of more educated crowd in sajha are more likely to buy the advertisers services.

Back to facebook fans count, right now most other Nepali sites have 'become our site fan' on their homepage soliciting users to become their fans. It maybe a personal thing for me but I cannot ask you to become my fan! That's why noone is requested to become a sajha fan! Most of us have busy schedules and becoming a fan of some site is not even remotely important in the grand scheme of things.

I think I have digressed a lot in this reply but whenever I see a long thread on sajha, I feel like it's my obligation to write up few things on what sajha is and isn't. Hope this helps answer few of the questions put forward by our astute friends.
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