Your News Front Page Is Boring

[Journalist]

-Anti alcohol lobby

-New cocktail discovery

-Romanian ATM scam

-Enraged Aussie

-Milk samples

As a cross-section, its pretty dull stuff. There was a topic attracting interest about a murder/suicide conundrum, but that was 'closed' awaiting new information.

There is a lot going on. At the time of writing, the Red mob is descending on Parliament House, and there is no topic opened to reflect that.

To have a news product that is generating interest, you have to have a pipeline of breaking stories.

"You're only as good as your last story".

Edited February 24, 2009 by Journalist

[phaethon]

That penultimate sentence gave me a headache.

[PhilHarries]

As the forum is not part of the news media network it relies on someone picking up breaking news from anther website and starting a new thread. Not everyone can be everywhere at once so if you see something that you think worthy of discussion why not post it?

As for the swinging head thread there was no new information coming out and it was just degenerating into an aimless guessing game.

[Plus]

Hmm, maybe it's because the best headline covering red protests was in notthenation: "40 red shirts seize bus stop".

You are free to start a new topic in General and ask mods to move it to News if it's not covered yet.

[taxexile]

As a cross-section, its pretty dull stuff. There was a topic attracting interest about a murder/suicide conundrum, but that was 'closed' awaiting new information.

i cant understand why it was closed , or why so many other topics are suddenly closed. talking about moderation policy is , for some unspecified reason , not allowed , so these issues can never be fully discussed in an open way.

if threads are only allowed to have new information in them then close the whole forum and just post newsfeeds as and when they are released , then you will have pure information , just like a newspaper.

chat , humour , speculation , banter , abuse and respect , both idle and informed , are what keeps forums alive and interesting , and there should be room for all that in any thread.

[Insight]

Hmm, maybe it's because the best headline covering red protests was in notthenation: "40 red shirts seize bus stop".

You are free to start a new topic in General and ask mods to move it to News if it's not covered yet.

If they did seize a bus stop at least it'd be showing some ingenuity. I mean, look at the amazing opposing ideas from the pro-Thaksin side so far...

PAD have yellow shirts, UDD has red shirts (took some thought)

PAD have hand clappers, UDD have feet clappers (and heart clappers - well outside the box there)

PAD take over government house, UDD take over.... government house (rubbish. Zero marks)

Even the names UDD and DAAD sound like they were coined after watching that scene in Life Of Brian.

Still, at least it's one of the few circuses in the world you get paid to visit...

[Kan Win]

O.K. guys stop given me strife, so where is this mysterious "Front Page" as I always use:-

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?act=portal The By-Pass

Yours truly,

Kan Win

[Plus]

There's a red protest thread in general now.

[PhilHarries]

Is there a reds under the bed fred?

[teletiger]

'And of course, the Thai economy shrinking 6.3% in the last quarter is of no interest to anyone.

Regards

[Journalist]

Today, i'd be inclined to run the encirclement of Government house by Thaksin's freedom army of national liberation and democracy as top story (and e mail bulletin).

Instead of running the 'new cocktail' story as lead and not running the Government House story at all.

Still, its always refreshing to see new editorial angles.

Edited February 24, 2009 by Journalist

[JacknDanny]

As a cross-section, its pretty dull stuff. There was a topic attracting interest about a murder/suicide conundrum, but that was 'closed' awaiting new information.

i cant understand why it was closed , or why so many other topics are suddenly closed. talking about moderation policy is , for some unspecified reason , not allowed , so these issues can never be fully discussed in an open way.

if threads are only allowed to have new information in them then close the whole forum and just post newsfeeds as and when they are released , then you will have pure information , just like a newspaper.

chat , humour , speculation , banter , abuse and respect , both idle and informed , are what keeps forums alive and interesting , and there should be room for all that in any thread.

Some very good points. Better not say anymore, otherwise we'll probably lose this thread

[MyphuketLife]

As a cross-section, its pretty dull stuff. There was a topic attracting interest about a murder/suicide conundrum, but that was 'closed' awaiting new information.

i cant understand why it was closed , or why so many other topics are suddenly closed. talking about moderation policy is , for some unspecified reason , not allowed , so these issues can never be fully discussed in an open way.

if threads are only allowed to have new information in them then close the whole forum and just post newsfeeds as and when they are released , then you will have pure information , just like a newspaper.

chat , humour , speculation , banter , abuse and respect , both idle and informed , are what keeps forums alive and interesting , and there should be room for all that in any thread.

Some very good points. Better not say anymore, otherwise we'll probably lose this thread

You can count on it, posts seem to have a shorter and shorter shelf life....

Edited February 25, 2009 by MyphuketLife

[neverdie]

Today, i'd be inclined to run the encirclement of Government house by Thaksin's freedom army of national liberation and democracy as top story (and e mail bulletin).

Instead of running the 'new cocktail' story as lead and not running the Government House story at all.

Still, its always refreshing to see new editorial angles.

Geeze I hate Journalists & their relentless hype and crap to falsely report on just about anything they see as newsworthy.