Posted by: Captain Haddock April 23, 2008
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San dai
There are raunchy pictures and threads that pop up every now and then that only serve to trash this site. I agree with your case-by-case approach of deleting them as needed. I also like the idea of a content editor - perhaps a student volunteer/intern who can work closely with you and help you monitor and organize content.
That said, I am sorry to hear people are dragging your motives and your family into this. Frankly, I think such people don't deserve a reply but need to be shown the door out. For every such person, I feel there are many more who appreciate the work you are doing - that's my gut feeling. Too bad they don't speak up as much as the trash-talkers.
I am however intrigued and concerned about how vulnerable Sajha is to miscreants because of the nature of the front page. This idea of the last post getting the top slot is a double-edged sword that has little to no safeguards against people who want to create mischief for their own pleasure at the expense of other users on the site. One of the complaints I heard right around the time of CA election results, where unique visitors consistently crossed 10,000 and even hit 18,000 on one day was how several people hesitated to post and join discussions because they could not bring themselves to posting because of what was on the rest of the site. I sometimes hesitate to forward links to Sajha pages because I don't want the recipients of my links to click on the home page because I can never tell what might be on it. That is a shame because every now and then there are some good threads that come up on Sajha - like Sirish's gazals, Sum Off's stories or Nepe's analysis to name a few.
One way of managing this would be to have a "landing page" where visitors to Sajha.com land on a simple page and are given a choice of which Sajha services they want to go to for example Kurakani, Chat, Ramjham, Classified, Blogs etc etc. You could chose to manually feature 5 or 10 threads, pictures, songs, videos, news items etc that you update everyday. What this buys you is Sajha can become more broad based - you can be a 45 year old dad at work or his 18 year-old daughter in the college lab (and anyone in between those ages) and you don't have to look around you and pray others aren't looking when you type www.sajha.com and start surfing the site.
I admire and respect your work and think you have the best of motives in running this service. That said, content is what will drive the future of the site and sadly we seem to manage that the poorest.
I trust you will take this in the right stride. I realize I can just shut up and discontinue using the site but I chose to speak up because to not do so would be a disservice to the fine people I have met on this site and the good times spent with them.
Best wishes.
CH
PS: Sajha Sansar does a much better job of content management but doesn't seem to have picked up much adoption because (I suspect) it has been overshadowed by Kurakani. Any thoughts on making that the landing page or promoting it in other ways?
There are raunchy pictures and threads that pop up every now and then that only serve to trash this site. I agree with your case-by-case approach of deleting them as needed. I also like the idea of a content editor - perhaps a student volunteer/intern who can work closely with you and help you monitor and organize content.
That said, I am sorry to hear people are dragging your motives and your family into this. Frankly, I think such people don't deserve a reply but need to be shown the door out. For every such person, I feel there are many more who appreciate the work you are doing - that's my gut feeling. Too bad they don't speak up as much as the trash-talkers.
I am however intrigued and concerned about how vulnerable Sajha is to miscreants because of the nature of the front page. This idea of the last post getting the top slot is a double-edged sword that has little to no safeguards against people who want to create mischief for their own pleasure at the expense of other users on the site. One of the complaints I heard right around the time of CA election results, where unique visitors consistently crossed 10,000 and even hit 18,000 on one day was how several people hesitated to post and join discussions because they could not bring themselves to posting because of what was on the rest of the site. I sometimes hesitate to forward links to Sajha pages because I don't want the recipients of my links to click on the home page because I can never tell what might be on it. That is a shame because every now and then there are some good threads that come up on Sajha - like Sirish's gazals, Sum Off's stories or Nepe's analysis to name a few.
One way of managing this would be to have a "landing page" where visitors to Sajha.com land on a simple page and are given a choice of which Sajha services they want to go to for example Kurakani, Chat, Ramjham, Classified, Blogs etc etc. You could chose to manually feature 5 or 10 threads, pictures, songs, videos, news items etc that you update everyday. What this buys you is Sajha can become more broad based - you can be a 45 year old dad at work or his 18 year-old daughter in the college lab (and anyone in between those ages) and you don't have to look around you and pray others aren't looking when you type www.sajha.com and start surfing the site.
I admire and respect your work and think you have the best of motives in running this service. That said, content is what will drive the future of the site and sadly we seem to manage that the poorest.
I trust you will take this in the right stride. I realize I can just shut up and discontinue using the site but I chose to speak up because to not do so would be a disservice to the fine people I have met on this site and the good times spent with them.
Best wishes.
CH
PS: Sajha Sansar does a much better job of content management but doesn't seem to have picked up much adoption because (I suspect) it has been overshadowed by Kurakani. Any thoughts on making that the landing page or promoting it in other ways?
Last edited: 23-Apr-08 11:13 AM