POTY 2023 Leaderboard

[BenStark]

On 11/10/2023 at 12:56 PM, Goat said:

However for your vote to count you have to give a 1,2,3 

 

eg 

3 Yinn

2 Nick Carter

1 GOAT.

 

Thank you for your understanding.

 

Doesn't make sense to vote 3 times for the same person wink wink nod nod

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by BenStark

[bignok]

Well done to Bob Smith, a worthy winner

[KannikaP]

On 11/10/2023 at 11:35 AM, gargamon said:

Kind of hard to vote for recommended candidates, especially since I have blocked many of them due to the useless drivel in their posts. 

+1

[KannikaP]

On 11/10/2023 at 1:14 PM, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   OK 

1 Yinn

2 Neeranams Rabbit friend

3 BM2s giant Rabbit friend

How can Yinn be POTY when she has not posted this year hardly.

[KannikaP]

On 11/10/2023 at 11:35 AM, gargamon said:

Kind of hard to vote for recommended candidates, especially since I have blocked many of them due to the useless drivel in their posts. 

+1

 

[KannikaP]

On 11/10/2023 at 3:30 PM, Andrew Dwyer said:

It’s not POTY without Geronimo and his witty narration.

But just in case it is i vote:

3) Yinn

2) Yinn

1) Yinn

 

and I didn’t even like her/him !

Has 'it' posted this year?

[Andrew Dwyer]

2 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Has 'it' posted this year?

Yes, “ it” is going by a new username, which one of the recent noobie bogans do you reckon it is ?

[Mike Lister]

I nominate George

 

 

[sipi]

It's all a bit drab already.

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Yes, “ it” is going by a new username, which one of the recent noobie bogans do you reckon it is ?

No idea, and not really interested.

However, how does one 'go by a new user name'? My son signed up on my PC, but was banned because the IP address and certain PC details were the same as mine so a Mod reckoned it was ME trying to start a duplicate account. How does this all work, anyone?

[Shop mak]

9 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

No idea, and not really interested.

However, how does one 'go by a new user name'? My son signed up on my PC, but was banned because the IP address and certain PC details were the same as mine so a Mod reckoned it was ME trying to start a duplicate account. How does this all work, anyone?

 

Email to

 

support (at)aseannow.com 

And explain your case 

[KannikaP]

2 minutes ago, Shop mak said:

 

Email to

 

support (at)aseannow.com 

And explain your case 

I did, and was told to use different browsers. Tough when you've only got Chrome or Edge on your PC. But it did work, thanks Mr Mod.

[hotandsticky]

On 11/10/2023 at 12:33 PM, Goat said:

Too technical for me. 

KISS is my life motto.

 

 

Another reason you won't get my vote; I am not voting for someone who is too thick to add a poll to a post......................

[sirineou]

Is this an officially sanctioned POTY competition ,  or is it an insurgency? 

Either  way I am good with it, but I have a limited supply of chopstick, and need to know whose arse I need to kiss more. 

I wish someone had told me about this thing, I would had been much nicer in the past couple of months, but I think I still have time to fake enough sincerity  to get at least a honorable mention. 

Plus did I mentioned I might not have long to live ? (Rare tropical disease ) . 

Tiny Tim would so love to see his Dad win this thing before he goes to the great hunting ground in the Sky. 

 

[bignok]

1 hour ago, Adumbration said:

How depressing.  Two of the three members in the OP are fake accounts.

 

Perhaps a FPOTY thread is more appropriate.

Which ones are fake?

[zzaa09]

2 hours ago, KannikaP said:

+1

Almost impossible when the greater percentage of regular participating members are knobs. 

Why bother.

 

[proton]

Not voting, look what happened to the last winner!

[Shop mak]

Members who can be suggested for POTY should have:

 

A long history of informative and intelligent posts.

Without a history of trolling & baiting.

 

@Goat  Create a poll, if POTY is so important.

Include option 'none of the above'.

 

Without a POLL, this will only become 200+ pages, back and forth.

 

[save the frogs]

On 11/9/2023 at 11:20 PM, Goat said:

Big Nok

3 Big Nok

2 Khunla

1 Goat

so bignok voted for himself?

shouldn't that be disallowed?

is his mother allowed to register and vote for him too?

[farmerjo]

I vote for

Bignok

Sirineou

Bob

The last poster i saw race to 10,000 posts was David48 years ago.

Be careful as his demise was soon after.

The old boys who had slow internet and are plugging away in the 20,000's are bitter.

[bignok]

15 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

so bignok voted for himself?

shouldn't that be disallowed?

is his mother allowed to register and vote for him too?

She died 10 years ago. Be amazing if she did vote.

[save the frogs]

4 minutes ago, bignok said:

She died 10 years ago. Be amazing if she did vote.

sorry for your loss.

 

[Morch]

14 hours ago, CharlieH said:

PUBLIC NOTICE.

 

The management has decided that the POTY can proceed this year as a "by the members for the members" with no involvement or participation by staff.

 

Please do not include any staff members in voting,

Admin/Mods will ensure there is no  skullduggery where possible.

It also needs to be run in the Lounge to stop new sign-ups interfering.

 

Best of luck with it.

 

...And may God have mercy on your souls.

[Morch]

7 hours ago, KannikaP said:

How can Yinn be POTY when she has not posted this year hardly.

 

It's like the new tax thing, calculated backwards.

[Morch]

5 hours ago, proton said:

Not voting, look what happened to the last winner!

 

That should be a motivator considering the candidates.

[save the frogs]

There should be an overall best poster.
But there should also be sub-categories.
I would like to nominate a sub-category.

Most Resilient Poster of The Year (MRP)

 

The guy who can take the most insults and still not quit the forum.
You can insult his political candidate and if the guy lives in Pattaya and you start a thread saying Pattaya sucks, the guy doesn't quit the forum. He just keeps coming back.

He can lose 100 arguments, but he won't quit. 

 

Like honey badgers are really resilient. If a venomous snake bites them, they can sleep it off. They can withstand spears. 

Asean Now MRP. Resilient and fearless. Like a honey badger. 
 

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by save the frogs

[sirineou]

9 hours ago, farmerjo said:

I vote for

Bignok

Sirineou

Bob

The last poster i saw race to 10,000 posts was David48 years ago.

Be careful as his demise was soon after.

The old boys who had slow internet and are plugging away in the 20,000's are bitter.

David 48 was and is a good guy, IMO he was sincere in posting about "Farmer Girl" , His kids, (I think they were his), and life in the farm.

Moderating was not then what it is today.  He was IMO unfairly attacked as using his kids to gain popularity etc. I dont think such thing would be allowed now days.  

I think he was simply interesting talking about his life. But got insulted and left the forum. 

I think he is back in Australia to work. 

      I have been fortunate to have spend close to 12 years in the US with my Thai wife consequently she is close to fluent in English and I can have a meaningful conversation with her , but unfortunately such is not the case of many expats living here.If one  was to ask my what my biggest challenge in Thailand is, I would say the inability to communicate  at a meaningful level.

Even when I go to . lets  say DoHome, I need to communicate what I want to my wife, and hope she understood , not being technically minded. Then she has to communicate her version of understanding to the people in the store .......... You can see where I am going with this. Very frustrating . At a gathering with other Thais I can communicate basic things (like a baby) but not complex thoughts. 

   We are thinking people , we have ideas, concerns, dreams, humor (some of us LOL)  and like people we would like to communicate these things with those around us, but we cant except at a very rudimentary level 

So that's where a forum like this comes in, but to properly function its purpose, there needs to be some understanding.

  First, not to take these thing seriously. Communications come at many levels and in many ways. 

Body and facial cues , voice inflection, context.  All parts of communication not available in a forum such as this. So it is easy to get the wrong impression. 

I am not being Holier than thou, I am also often guilty of jumping to conclusions. So IMO allowances need to be made. No one , and I mean absolutely NO ONE, I have met online in Thailand, was as I imagined them to me.  

If I had only one thing to say in this forum  it would be

STOP TAKING EVERYTHING SO SERIOUSLY!! and above all , stop taking yourself so Seriously .

     Except of course if you agree with me.    Seriously!!

And Oh,, Good Morning!

 

Edited November 11, 2023 by sirineou

[KannikaP]

12 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Almost impossible when the greater percentage of regular participating members are knobs. 

Why bother.

 

Yes I agree, from me, a regular participating member.

[Nick Carter icp]

15 hours ago, save the frogs said:

what's with the obsession over a long-gone poster who maybe was a thai girl?

you guys can't find a thai girl to have a decent conversation with in real life ?

 

 

   On the other site , Yinn  was just another poster to me .

She wasn't a Thai Female and thus regarded as a potential sex partner or a possible replacement for the current girlfriend , it was just a poster who made interesting posts .

    Trouble arose when men who see every Thai female as a potential real life sex partner , even Thai females online are future potential one night stands or wife material , they got sexually aroused when a Thai Female posted and they also got sexually frustrated because they could nt have sex with her 

    That sexual frustration lead to online abuse of Females who they couldn't have sex with  

[Nick Carter icp]

16 hours ago, Shop mak said:

Members who can be suggested for POTY should have:

 

A long history of informative and intelligent posts.

Without a history of trolling & baiting.

 

@Goat  Create a poll, if POTY is so important.

Include option 'none of the above'.

 

Without a POLL, this will only become 200+ pages, back and forth.

 

 

   TBH, I don't think that this site has enough posters for there to be a POTY competition