What does "family friendly" mean in the context of VJ?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Darnell moved AJ's thread he had started in P&R castigating the whiney ones about the Fed shut down. Someone called AJ that in the upper forum. Some old guy took off and ran with it of course and added the G in front. Of course the heavily political thread being moved from P&R to the worst possible place on the site and making many mad a OT and P&R attitude ensued and now the thread is Locked. So AJ is now as backslash. Funny huh?

Guess you had to be there.

The G.(Ginoo or Ginoong) is a Filipino thing, much like Mr.(Mister) is in English.

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11%

like i said, there is a wide range.

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up to 19%

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

up to 19%

I'm touched, then, that he found time to call me a hooker.

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I'm touched, then, that he found time to call me a hooker.

He is quite the industrious young fella.

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up to 19%

down to 17%

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down to 17%

and thanks to a recent spurt in activity it jumped up to 26%!

see what i mean about variation?

[Amby 490]

hmmm...that's a lot of postin!

[The Dude 206]

hmmm...that's a lot of postin!

That is certainly one way of putting it

[Darnell 8,479]

Posting a pinned list with all the appropriate links for each country's embassy/consulate should handle the situation. For at least the Manila embassy, the most current and relevant information is on their website.

as a forum topic?

na - too cumbersome, as noobs would be posting questions.

Have you looked at yer portal? There's a nice link there, tells all about __your__ embassy, then there's the Embassy Link, as well.

It's a wonderful clickie link thingie - works well (finally) .

maybe the Portal usage has changed much, since you first came on to VJ ? Take a look, please let me know what you think about Your Portal ?

(click the flag under yer name, jumps you straight there)

[웃 910]

as a forum topic?

na - too cumbersome, as noobs would be posting questions.

Have you looked at yer portal? There's a nice link there, tells all about __your__ embassy, then there's the Embassy Link, as well.

It's a wonderful clickie link thingie - works well (finally) .

maybe the Portal usage has changed much, since you first came on to VJ ? Take a look, please let me know what you think about Your Portal™ ?

(click the flag under yer name, jumps you straight there)

Why do you write "yer"? When I googled "yer" it gave me the currency exchange rate between a YER (Yemini Rial) and a USD. Do you mean 'your'?

Edited April 11, 2011 by Lord Infamous

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

as a forum topic?

na - too cumbersome, as noobs would be posting questions.

Have you looked at yer portal? There's a nice link there, tells all about __your__ embassy, then there's the Embassy Link, as well.

It's a wonderful clickie link thingie - works well (finally) .

maybe the Portal usage has changed much, since you first came on to VJ ? Take a look, please let me know what you think about Your Portal ?

(click the flag under yer name, jumps you straight there)

Gee. All that work for the Manila Embassy, not that accurate, and could have been replaced by a single link: http://manila.usembassy.gov/

[Darnell 8,479]

Gee. All that work for the Manila Embassy, not that accurate, and could have been replaced by a single link: http://manila.usembassy.gov/

ya - the VJ hosted page is only as accurate as

--the author's info

--current info ages over time

so many ppl update it, each time they have to hit the embassy.

perhaps is your turn for the update, for Manila IV?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

ya - the VJ hosted page is only as accurate as

--the author's info

--current info ages over time

so many ppl update it, each time they have to hit the embassy.

perhaps is your turn for the update, for Manila IV?

This makes my head hurt.

[Captain Hammer 113]

I don't have an opinion one way or the other about getting rid of the regional sub-forums, as I don't see the forums themselves as the underlying issue. Bad behavior is the underlying issue. In the cases I have seen, it is literally 3-4 members who cause 98% of the problems. You get rid of those behaviors, and suddenly the problems begin to take care of themselves.

And moderation team, please don't take this as criticism because I know you all work hard and on a volunteer basis. But the pattern I see is this: handful of members create a situation (attacking other members, racist remarks, whatever). They are warned, posts are removed, maybe even some suspensions are handed out in the worst case. And maybe a week goes by where it's not so bad, but eventually the cycle repeats itself. It is as if the collective memory of the site gets reset about once a week.

Over the last few months there is at least one member I can think of who has been suspended 3 times, and possibly even more, I'm not sure. At some point, does a member ever become disruptive enough to just be asked to leave? Because right now, there seems to be no incentive for disruptive members to stop bad behavior. If you never have to face actually being asked to leave, then you have no incentive to stop your bad behavior. IMHO anyway.

As I see it, this is not an organizational problem, and has nothing to do with whether we have regional forums or not. It has to do with members being accountable for their behavior. Fix that and the problem fixes itself.