ASEANNOW is Joining The Thaiger

[mstevens]

10 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

It's always amazing to read the marketing blabla.

It would be interesting to know the real story. 

 

The announcement was ridiculous puffery and yes, the real story would be much more interesting.

[Skipalongcassidy]

11 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

ThaigerTalk - the forum of The Thaiger - is dedicated to Free Speech with little to no moderation.  Only when members report breaches/complaints a Moderator will look at the case and make a fair decision with TT's Free Speech policy as over-riding principle.  

Will be interesting to see how that will affect AseanNow's current moderation approach.  

I call BS on that... I was banned many times by the liberal left mod squad before I left for good last year.

[cookie1974]

Maybe you will be more free to express your views without fear of a ban by the tyranical moderators in the current system,after all a forum is all about free speech isnt it?

[mstevens]

So what's the plan?

 

Will the server get an overhaul? It really is very slow.

 

Will there be a rebranding? ThaiVisa was generally well-regarded while I think the rebranding to ASEANNow didn't work out so well and has been fraught with technical issues.

 

What about moderation? Will this be a place where jokers are encouraged? Will the moderation be heavy-handed? Will it be a place for freedom of speech?

 

Or will it just be more of the same....?

[mstevens]

24 minutes ago, Mark17AA said:

That's me done then, can't stand The Thaiger... Awful 

 

Agreed. TheThaiger is known for copying other people's work and passing it off as their own.

[TDCNINJA]

Does this mean the radical Marxists who post here will finally be held accountable?

[gearbox]

10 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

Congratulations, the hard work paid off.

How would you know...I saw somewhere that around 3 mil baht changed hands. One can't be sure as this is not a public company to publish accounts.

[norfolkandchance]

11 hours ago, 2long said:

I was first to reply! 😉🤭🙄

Flyingtiger is devastated.

[norfolkandchance]

11 hours ago, BigBruv said:

Are the mods changing?

Hopefully 

[Shmo]

Maybe they can address the annoying pop up ads covering up the pages on mobile display. It’s so annoying that I stopped coming to the pages and only read the summary page. I’m pretty sure Cigna and all the health insurance ads are going to remain as irrelevant as they were. 

[norfolkandchance]

11 hours ago, transam said:

This will be interesting.........😋

Getting your old job back then ?

[kwilco]

so when someone from AN moves to Thaiger it raises the IQ of both parties,

[spermwhale]

Thaiger is a bottom feeding reporting outfit that is worse than the Daily Mail in England or National Enquirer in the US. Their reporting is awful, insensitive, replete with commentary in poor taste. Asean now will become a cesspool of garbage news. 

[scorecard]

12 hours ago, 2long said:

I was first to reply! 😉🤭🙄

Good, and you've achieved the impossible, a post which hasn't attracted the 'confused' emoji. 

 

Good luck to all concerned. 

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, 2long said:

I was first to reply! 😉🤭🙄

And not much to say...

[scorecard]

12 hours ago, BigBruv said:

Are the mods changing?

Someone didn't read the earlier post, it says clearly the mods stay. 

[madmitch]

A few revamps I hope they implement: go back to one like button rather than the four similar ones that have now, show the identity of posters reacting to posts, less strict moderation, though of course certain issues need an amount of moderation and get a server with speeds that don't remind me of dial-up days.

 

I also hope they continue stories from all news sources as The Thaiger don't exactly employ the greatest wordsmiths!

[scorecard]

23 minutes ago, TDCNINJA said:

Does this mean the radical Marxists who post here will finally be held accountable?

 

Examples...

[BoganInParasite]

Normally my salutation for something like this would be 'best wishes' but I feel in this case 'good luck' would be more appropriate.

[Mike Lister]

23 minutes ago, gearbox said:

How would you know...I saw somewhere that around 3 mil baht changed hands. One can't be sure as this is not a public company to publish accounts.

I was a forum moderator until recently, I was aware of some of what has happened and how hard senior forum staff had been working to make it happen.

[scorecard]

50 minutes ago, Mark17AA said:

That's me done then, can't stand The Thaiger... Awful 

Bye,close the door when you leave.

[jacko45k]

12 hours ago, Crossy said:

 

Only into fresh underwear!

Always seeing the sunny side of things!

[stoner]

1 hour ago, Driller said:

 and especially harsh on the AN mods. 

 

You sure ?

[norfolkandchance]

44 minutes ago, digger70 said:

May have to Retire some Old not straight /Rational thinking mods.

With a nice pension I expect.

[spidermike007]

I felt that ever since they became Asean now, the moderation was much better. Previously, people would get warned for the tiniest of infractions. Hopefully this lack of censorship will continue.

 

Keep up the good work. 

[eumenades]

Look at the language from this marketing genre : 

 

fantastic news 

 

enhancing the experience

 

synergies between our platforms

 

achieve new heights.

 

enriching your experience

 

 

I love the "achieve new heights" - I am sure we are all still dizzy from the last attempt at a digital Kanchenjunga.

 

 

[Dazinoz]

Looks like more and more adverts on the way.

[Red Phoenix]

36 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

I call BS on that... I was banned many times by the liberal left mod squad before I left for good last year.

Me too was banned there by the power-tripping Mods on ThaigerTalk, but mid November I was invited again to rejoin as things had changed drastically (all the Mods except the only fair decent one got the boot).  And none of my posts have been deleted/altered since, so ThaigerTalk's current Free Speech policy is not 'words in the wind' (several members that wanted me banned for my posts got a friendly Free Speech remember from the Head Moderator). 

[Red Phoenix]

6 hours ago, Jingthing said:

So I can go on that and trash Trump? I seriously doubt it.

You don't want free speech.

You want your flavor of speech protected and that's it.

 

Related to that, I've noticed on this forum that obvious Nazis have been allowed to post extremely vile hate speech.

 

Will the new boss follow that same policy? 

Yes, on ThaigerTalk you can trash Trump or Biden without any moderator interference.  Free Speech also pertains to speech you don't like.  And of course it results in interesting discussions as well as mud-slinging. 

[thesetat]

i do not predict this sale will be a good thing for Asean now or for its members.. As Asean now always took their posts from other news services, now with Thaiger as the owner I think the only news we will actually see will be the same we can see in the Thaiger online. So why have this app?

The only good that came out of this sale is for the owners of Asean now. Perhaps now is a good time to start up website free from Thaigers influence. Utilizing many sources to get us our information. Who can say that Thaiger is unbiased in their approach to giving news to its followers? I can not count the number or ads i have seen in Thaiger shown as a news report when it should have been in their advertising section to promote Thailand. Tis a sad day for Asean Now.