I have visited last night and found that Arabic Sabla got 245 new topics, that was not a full day or peak time did not reached, I reckon it gets about 500 topics a day and may be each topic get more than 10 responses a day.

Will this English Sabla matches the Arabic Sabla ?.

'Yes'

it will ONE day.


but u know Quantiy always dosent matter; comparing
to :cool: QUALITY of English Sablah, and its Members.

cum on felas.. let us proove it.

salam aleekom .. well u r asking whether this would equal arabic sablah or not.. for sure never as long as we got people who only want to talk about funny things.. i mean i never seen anyone shooting a topic about many important things in oman .. i once posted a topic about the festival and the parties about 4cats and ali bahr.. no one seem liked them.. they don't want to discuss even topics about the religion.. most want funny things here only.. and interesting things.. but very rare political or educational or religious topics.. seem most wanna enjoy the time in jokes ... well it is what is here .. not from my mind.. !! so no comments cause it is clear ..

First of all, I do believe that one day our english Sabla will equal our arabic. Once upon a time the arabic one started of just as the current english
Secondly.. This is NOT a joke forum. Peopl enjoy it alot, and we provide lots of usefull information too. You should visit the IT forum. And you just have to know and accept that this message board is restricted for security reasons and the benefit for all, The admin, moderators and members.
Hope you'll understand more, and enjoy it in the coming days. & it is YOU (members)that help keep the forum Live.
So plz. stay with us, and let us know about any problem you have. At the meantime, I think the message board is great!

Arabic saplah is very mature forum, just ask yourself some questions like..

1. how many active members are there in Arabic and how many are here??
number of active members doesn't necessarily show the quality but certainly the number of post and replies.

2.How many members are there have posted more than 1000 posts ??
I've seen many with more than 2000 posts there which give you an idea how experience those guys are. In English Saplah I only saw one member with more than 500 posts. I mean, try to imagine that we have 10 active members with more than 1000 posts. The place will certainly be more lively and mature.

3. How many people even those who speak fluent English can really write political, scientific or religious thread in a brilliant language (few). I mean not all of the massage board members are studying in the UK, US, Canada...etc. While in Arabic they don’t have this problem.

But I am still optimistic about the future....just be patient .




[Edited by nzwani on 01-31-2001 at 06:07 PM]

well.. with my respect ya sit ilhaam ..the thing is how do u want this place to be active and at the same time u make people disappointed ..u know what i mean when the new moderators came and none of the current members has been recognised at all .. where is the equality here .. i am not saying this cause i want to be a moderator.. god knows i never thought about this thing i may one day leave this place for reasons..no one knows about life .. but for sure there are many people who care about it and they find it unequal for them to be such ignored members.. i know u or some may see my point a bit silly .. but i don't think it is ..
and about the topics.. well.. i didn't say that these topics are not interesting.. they are actually interesting and this is what makes me stay here and participate always..otherwise i wouldn't be here at all..and i didn't say that this forum is a joke.. but it is actually getting to be like that due to its topics.. and my point was ..where are the topics that relate to our society, culture, religion, our omani people, customs, our problems ..and the current changes in our omani conservative society.. for sure only very rare topics were posted to discuss some of the huge amount of problems and matters in our omani society..but you can't find such discussions like these!!!!!!...
i guess this sablah could be a place where we can share our views in sorting out some problems even if our solutions don't get out of this place..but at least maybe one day there would be someone who would be able to carry it to others....these are my own personal views only..

Hello allz ..
Well .. I dissagree with who said the Sablah " English" is
more mature "oh Come on " Topics in threads demonstrate
- no all but most - Teenage Mindes ! all about Fantasies
or maybe I Got the Idea of this sablah wrong - Meaning I thought General "Discussion" would have .. Deep topics !
useful once in our Comunity ! or .. any comunity ..
this is a Personal point of veiw nothing Personal .. but
nah ! the topics seem to be getting rather .. Sorry to
say " shallow " .. think Deeper! dosent matter how many threads there are , Its how people's Fingers wanna type
when theres a topic ! I never Visited the Arabic Sablah
before so I am not Comparing .. but Everytime I open the
sablah " I HOPE" for a topic to write in ! but nothing.!
Even not in the General Disscution .. Say in Arts , they
write lyrics ! copy-paste !!! why didnt anyone .. most
who visit that try to show what THEY write ! Simple words
which show Meaning's .. If I want Lyrics I would Visit
a yahoo site! I suggested a part of Sabla to be about Scientific questions .. Simpley answered ! but no one Even Paid attention ! I think IF I suggest to have part of the
sabla about Girl FriendS and boy FrienDs Problems that would be a hit ! seems to me Its a Place for Teens!
Moderators TRY to improve this Place " Isnt that youR job- and PLEASE .. Dont .. Say this Sabla is
a mature form of Sabla ! Oh PleaSe !!!
Thank you for your time & baring with what I have Said
( FACTS ) .. To me .. Good Luck In Improvments ..
we ShaLL see .. whats Gonna happen ..

Us moderators do all we can to make this Sabla going. It's up to the members who post the topics. Why don't YOU start of with a topic you like best, and as it gets going, maybe we can open a forum special for it. If you have any suggestions it should go in the Suggestion box. Please be patient and help us too note that your posts and activeness is highly appreciated by us. In the mean-time plz stay with us & will make you the best of it.

Happy Surfin !

*****************
Ilhaam Al-Maskery

hhhhhhhhhhh :)

You are dreaming my friends!!!!! It's good to be ambitious but you have to be realistic. If you want to be as famous ae arabic sablah, be indeed an arab.Since all the subjects in these Sablah are girlish and sill.... pardon me!!!

SaLam All
Well I Dont Think This Sablah Gona be as the arabic sablah
coz most of the subjects here for girls or stupid topics and rare u can see a topic that deserve to discuss,,,i just found two 2 three subjects that some 1 can discuss and give opinion and the rest r just childish and when u get a good topic to discuss about no one participate all the users here participate in subjects like how u think about girls
or what u think about a kiss or etc which r silly subjects
sorry to say that but its the true :D

Hello Guys,

It has been along time since I have visited this Sabla. And I must say this topic interested me the most. As you all know I am the owner of OmanForum or well known there as Neo. I don't know, but I think I could give some good points here from the owner point of view. Now what makes a sabla or forum or a message board successful:

1) Members: Not number of members, but Quality of members. When I first opened OmanForum for public, all I wanted is to get more member, no only I realize is not the number I am looking is the quality.

2) Speed: For those who are familiar with OmanForum, you would have known that when it first was launch it was too slow due to server problem, although the members were coming in regular pases, but I could feel the agony they were suffering due to the speed. Thus I upgraded the server, and in one week from the upgrade, the post tripled, this show that people were interested but didn't post cause the server was slow

3) Treat the forum members as one big happy family: I try my best to involve my members in everything, whether it's big or small, time to time I arrange contest. For example the latest OmanForum logo was designed by one of the members after the contest was held and the winner was chose. But some things are not to be said, it just that

4) I never considered OmanForum as mine, although I own it, remember there are 7 people (moderators) working in it, and if I go and be bossy on them I might as well shut down the entire forum. I treat Omanforum as our forum. I don't take one simple step without consulting, not a single step. I keep on receiving email from people who would want to advertise, I would show that email to my moderators and leave them to judge whether we would accept such person to advertise in our forum. Although the money would totally go to me, but still I take their opinion. IF ONE OPPOSE than we take votes

5) Quality of moderators (Very important). Not anybody can be a moderators. Remember being a moderators is a job and not a privilege, it doesn't mean you would have the power of editing, deleting, banning members. No t means you are screwed and you have more job now. So I chose my moderatos wisely and offcourse after consulting the existing moderators. And only active member can become moderators

6)The look of the message board: Physiology speaking, a human mind prefer light colors such as (white, light blue etc..) any dark colors automatically it triggers the human being mind and some how it makes him feel drowsy and before you know it he is out. So it's very important the forums color to be light

7)Be strict on the rules, if someone drifts away from the rules you act quick, edit, delete, if worst comes worst BANNED

8) A site should look as professional as possible, this include the logo, professionalism is very important, it send a message to visitors that these guys are serious.

9) Moderators Meeting: There is no seious message board if it lacks the element of moderators meeting. MEaning for example, me and my moderators try to meet atleast once a week, in those meeting we discuss various topics that's been going on that particular meeting and we come up with suggestions that could help and increase the quality of the forum even more. For exmplae the Palestinian Cause T-Shirts Donation was an Idea that we came up in one of our meetings, normally we meet in a good restaruants and have dinner together just like one big happy family

10) Last but not least, SECURITY of a message board. No offence but when I registered in this Sabla I noticed that I was allowed to put in my own password and email. This could bevery dangerous. A bad individual could come and start creating zillion members and start spamming the message board like hell. Trust me I know, I had that option in omanforum, and it all started when the forum kicked off, a person came in and created at least 100 members and not only that each members name he chose was similart to one of the members in the forum, he came in and spammed and curse the authority, this is very dangours, if one saw one of his message and could lead to a shut down. The best thing is user to put an email and the password to put sent to him, that way if he wanted to sapm, he would everytim create a valid email from yahho or hotmail, and you know how length is that process is.

I think that's about raps it all. I hope I didn't cause any problem in here, but I thought I should have share my experience as a manager of OmanForum.com with you all. Take care and good luck you all

[Edited by Salim Al-Harthy on 02-01-2001 at 10:14 AM]

two years ago this question was ask...

i would like to ask it again, just a slight change... since the english sabla has grown so much in the past 2 years...

how do you see the english sablas progress during the past two year, or since you joined?

I’m still upon one of the new members on this board, however I have been reading it for a while, and I would agree with some of the posts above that this forum is just a total mess. I’m sorry if I sound rude, but some moderators are childish cant handle the members. Get offended very fast, answer in a childish way, its like having the attitude, “He started it!”

Most of the posts are like chit chat although the post by X-Press in the Members lounge asks for less, I don’t know why is the facility of PM available when its all going on the Forum?

A topic, which would start of with educational points and interesting posts, would end up either flame, or off-topic.

With all due respect more than 70% of the members here are childish, have nothing better to do then to waste their time on this forum and post rubbish, or perhaps open a whole new thread to put their similes etc.

I also have to admit that some writers are just too good to be on this board. They are so intelligent and articulate, however non recognize them and give importance to their posts/threads.

The Arabic sabla isn’t up to standard as it use to be its pretty much going down the drain if you ask me. Members are just in for fun, and turn every topic into a sarcastic seen.

To sum up all the above, I think the Arabic sabla is going down the English Sabla level and not visa versa. It’s a pity really.

thank u for ur deep honesty
I agree some members in this sabla are extra perfect and indeed Wonderful mature writers...and they r around and they enrich us with their intresting way of writing and discussing very much important topics

same time...we have some members that r into chit chat alot (though Msn,Pm facilty is around!) I wonder how we can pass this messege to them!... I am sure that every single member in this board has a very well developed opinion about the Vast topics (i say TOPICS) posted i this sabla.. I hope ur messege will reach all of us including us The moderators

Yet I still see that the beauty of This sabla is within its rich contents of different Opinions and mentalities

after all the new member should as him self as well all of us

Why do I join this Board? is it Just to get to know more people and make friends??? Just that or..as well .to Discuss and Benifit and let others benifit from me and hear my Opinion!

In comparison to the past 2 years This sabla has grown...from just 4-5 active members to many more active members now

The general sabla is boosting in the past few weeks
The politics sabla is as usual HOT!
religion sabla...HOT
Arts Sabla: Go and see ...Wonderful! and happy about its performance
IT sabla...is doing well...
The successful section (The personal and social problems sabla.)..is now taken seriously by many members!!
Business sabla is going on with some intresting topics posted there from time to time
Sports sabla needs ur efforts All....
health and education sabla is Boosting from time to time and u all can learn from it!

So u see Dear members MANY sections (Sabla).... Participate in it...
as much as u can and respect others opinions... U wont change the world or wont gain anything but hater by Flamming others!!!!
I think u r better than That!!!

Step by step we will do our best for this sabla Just for u Guys ;)

Thank you Deep Ocean for your comments and seriously these kind of commetns make the place better because at least us moderators and as well members know what is right and what is wrong.

I have to disagree in one of your points. Yes we have wounderful members here. but most of them are given thier place here. We are trying our best to give them thier place by having those (best member of the month).

No, the most work is by members. Yes some might be childish .. and you might not like thier posts, but does that mean you have to stop posting in the sabla?? it will make no differnce and more and more childish members will join!!
so the answer to this problem is, post more .. invite friends who you know have strong opinions, and would enrich the sabla .. this way .. suprisingly you will find less chitchats and more serious topics!!

I will take this as a call to members to take topics seriously and learn mroe from sabla!

Originally posted by Arabian Princess


but does that mean you have to stop posting in the sabla


I don’t recall typing a sentence where I said I would stop writing in the sablah in fact I have just joined 3 days ago.

The sablah needs something called ‘organization’. Its in a total mess, and if you think is it organized then i suggest that you reorganize it. Its simply not going to work this way.

hmm i am not saying it is organised..but how can we improve what are ur suggestions?!

All in all i think the sabla has come way up and many ppl thought that the sabla wouldnt make it through but it did and here is the proof..it is not perfect and we are not giving up!!

dunno about the arabic sabla cause i rarely visit it!! but i think the englishsabla is improving!! although the level of chit chat is increasing now and i must say and we are trying our very best to decrease that level..but again..it's not entirely up to us as it's the members who make this place what it is..and so..it's in their hands.

am sure everyone can find a topic that would interest him/her if he/she made the effort to look and read through them.

all the best for everyone.

If you’re talking about improvement then I guess it has gone a long way to reach what it is at the moment. I personally find it so different from the first days that I joined, though it’s sad that members like nzwani don’t participate anymore. Furthermore, the moderators have put lots of effort to bring up this site, it also became more popular that everyone is joining, you would find smart people, people who wanna just have fun etc.

I suggest, that the admin sends those members something like a PM asking them to cut it off.

But the funny thing is that the actual members aren’t giving their feed back! I wonder how bad is that! Since kamakazy brought up this thread, its only Deep Ocean who is new was able to give a straight forward opinion, non other! Allah yostor! This doenst look good! Oh yeah and me too :D

Deap Ocean,
I did not say that you will stop posting .. it was just my way to ask you to hang on to the sable and help us improve it.

Orgnizing it, its a great start by its own. But what do you mean by organizing it? you can open a thread about this in the suggestion sabla please.

wow interesting alot of old members appearing suddenly :)

well i've been just in sabla for less then an year now and i see improvement in it taking steps to the better everytime.

Comparing the EnglishSabla to the ArabicSabla? Can we actually do that?!

As members mentioned this is an english form mostly joined by arabic speaking members. But Arabic sabla is purely for those who speak arabic from the first place. Beside all that when did both Sablas' start? As far as I recall not around the same time. Nor English sabla started to be active prior then 2 years as Kamakazy mentioned.

Comparing the number of posts and new threads and replies... even comparing the number of members?... There isnt alot of bases to be used to compare. From my point of view.

Probably we can compare the actual Statistics. From when Arabic Sabla start and English sabla started maybe...we can compare and have a slight idea..about how both are doing. But again they arent compare-able especially Arabic Sabla..was one of the first to start while English Sabla started off from it.

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Overall, I see English Sabla just going from good to better and improvement is implemented.

But truthfuly ...reading everyones' opinion was quite interesting..and very useful

lets see what other members would say.

And two years has passed and I am back, but not as Salim, but as Gollum.

All I can say, Color me impressed. There is a huge difference in terms of people and their mindset. Before I used to read Oman Forum topics, but these days, I tend to read both.

All I can say keep it up guys. Its sad that not many companies in Oman would sponsor websites. I was very lucky to sell Oman Forum, because I knew, If I didn't I would have just close it down.

But the spirit of this Sabla is a totally different ball game. And I hope those of you who finance this Sabla and keeps it running don't give up and do what you require to keep it alive.

Its sites like this which make people away from their home feel as home, such as I, being in Iran, surrounded by sea, in Persian gulf, on the verge of a war :(

hehehe....Give up??:D thats not even an option....or a thought.....Admin and the team are full of ideas...and things are actually turning out to the better....always....

Gollum: thx for your words of incouragement.

DeDe! read the begning on the threads again! it started 2 years ago :D :D this thread was first open in 2001 :D :D open up your eyes.


Salim, or whatever the new nick, glad to see ya around, though its too bad your in Iran :D :D enjoy it though as much as you can :D

conduct a poll here about the ages of the members, you would notice that the level of maturity is behind all the stupid posts in this sabla. This is a good place for certain aged members to meet and participate and it has evolved to be that way. Nothing wrong with that at all except that it made mature members not welling to participate. What is your goal behind this sabla? if your goal is people meeting and having chit chats and discussing topics about boy friends girl friends then you I congratulate you for meeting your goal. If your goal is to make it as good as the politics sabla in the arabic forum then you gotta attract good brains by not posting teenagers stuff. To do that everyone should participate starting from the member with 1 post and ending with the old member with 5000 posts. Moderators better think of a strategy instead of hitting balls in the dark.

The English sabla needs something like “Advertisement” the moderators should be able to make money out of it not pay for it! This site first needs to get mature writers then start hitting them advertisements.

**** M5, that was not so good thing to say. Its like you dissing my preciousssssssssssss. But than again it turned me into Gollum. But I like being Gollum, smeagol was to soft.

And that is why we shouldnt be to soft, we need to be strong. And if all of you consider this place as your precioussssssss. You shouldnt diss it, instead, do something about it.

Do I make any sense?, do I need to make any sense?. The matter of fact is. Sabla is way better than it was, in all sense. And everything has its own ups and down. But most important that we shouldnt give up and loose interest.

hmm such a good thread..but i dont bellieve in comparing!
Each forum has its own Pro's and Con's.. and as one of the members above mentioned that Arabic Sabla is going down instead of up high..the English sabla is getting higher each day!

In my opinion sabla is doing great..it purposes both seriouse members as well childish ones! Its allways on someones will..Many many great topics are linked in here as well unserioused ones..
Yess i do agree that sometimes those silly ones covers the good one but overall its one of the greatest..
I wish if those silly chit chatting threads ends...and members concetrate more on the mature ones...

P.S.. I just want to remind the moderators that they are a TEAM that should allways work together to make this a better place..And make this sabla a way of sending an Omani need.
All the best...

Dear mods/admin,

Im sick to death of people complaining about the quality of this sabla, especially when most of those compaining are either new members or members who barely participate or make any real effort to affect any significant change or improvement. Its very easy to just nit-pick and criticise, but what good is it when those criticising arent offering actual strategies to improve it, or arent proactively implementing suggested strategies?

We can all rant and rave about certain things we find displeasing about this bulletin board, but we could do the same with ANY bulletin board, because no place will cater for all mindsets and personalities equally, but I think, as the sabla currently stands, it is far superior than most forums on the net in welcoming participation from a very diverse range of members.

Not only does it appeal to local Omanis, but to members of a variety of nationalities, cultures and from all walks of life. It also has a very wide age demographic, from 15 year old school children to 40-something academics. This necessitates for an equally wide range of topics, and a myriad of varying levels of contributions.

Clearly, 15-20 yr olds will NOT have the same approach, style and level of knowledge as 35-40 yr olds, and they aren't going to be interested in the same issues, but I see this as a positive element of this forum, not one which we should attack and criticise. It makes for a much more interesting read, and gives EnglishSabla a unique taste that keeps most people coming back for more.

The only suggestion I can make to those who feel dissatisfied is that we can only try to improve on those areas that are considered to be problematic by the majority of members, and so far, I dont see a familiar complaint apart from perhaps decreasing the level of 'chit chat' (which I personally enjoy:rolleyes: ), and I think this complaint is being consistently and effectively addressed by the mods, and we are seeing a positive result in response to their efforts.

Finally, I would like to say thank you to all of those members (including the mods) who make this place what it is, and I extend an invitation (and a challenge) to any members, new or old, who feel that they can better this forum to ACTIVELY do so, by instigating improvements, through the introduction of new threads, or intelligent/thoughtful/articulate contributions to existing threads.

Looking forward to your increased involvement!

Regards,
Raffee

some1: hmm...but i havent seen it before...:) soo its new to me..:D and wanted to comment on it based on that....

good points M5....and indeed a strategy needs to be implemented always.

najah: exactly...cant compare...:) for sure...the moderators do their best to work always like a team...

raffee: well...you got a very good point there...and have a sugguestion which every should consider if our aim is to improve the sabla...

raffee: frist of all all posts in this particular thread were based on comparison between the arabic sabla and the english sabla and we all are giving suggestions here about why the arabic sabla is better... obviously you don't read the arabic sabla. Second of all, you mentioned that , and I quote" but what good is it when those criticising arent offering actual strategies to improve it, or arent proactively implementing suggested strategies? " which shows that you don't understand the first thing about strategy except for using the word of course. Strategy is offered by those who moderate (administration) and direct the whole sabla to follow it. Members don't offer strategies, they only suggest and that's what we are doing now.

The problem her is a problem of evolution. New threads evolve from other silly threads and they keep on coming. Nothing is wrong with that if the goal is particulary that. Put if your goal is to make it as the arabic sabla then you have to take another approach. Again our argument is on how to make this sabla as good as the arabic sabla.

the talk here is about how to make the english sabla as good as the arabic one which is understandable as both of them are fourms the only difference is the language.

We keep talking about improvements and changes so that english sabla will be as good as the arabic one..but how good is the arabic one?!!

What has the arabic one got that we havent? i think by answering this question we will be able to get somehwhere..

Raffee, with all due respect, I might not be as active as you are with 13.59 posts per day, good heavens! I do have other things to look after, nerveless, I do check on the sabla, and as I said it’s not a bad place to be, and its not that good, the moderators really have to consider topics which are worth reading, and edit or delete any other posts are the unwelcome into those threads. I recognize the members lounge is made for such talk but not for the General, Politic or Religion sabla.

I wouldn’t blame the moderators for not having the sufficient time to look all over the sabla and into each and every detail in it, I know that each one of them has their own life that has to be looked after, in addition to that, Its been noticed that a couple of moderators them selves seems to be a bit childish if I may say. Their comment on each member, say things that aren’t worth posting, some shoot up their number of posts and I can assure you not even half of it is quality.

If I had not cared about this place I wouldn’t have bothered saying a word, however, I would not like to see it going down, M5 said most of what I had to say, so I guess he got my voice to join his.

Just hoping this place would be a better place, wishing the moderators and the Admin best of luck.

One more thing, I assure you, whatever posts you would read by me would be of quality, so if I have nothing good to say id better leave the place in peace.

I hope this would be taken into consideration, hoping too that I have not offended anyone.

My regards,

Deep Ocean

Originally posted by Deep Ocean
Its been noticed that a couple of moderators them selves seems to be a bit childish if I may say. Their comment on each member, say things that aren’t worth posting, some shoot up their number of posts and I can assure you not even half of it is quality.


well it would be nice if you pointed those moderators for us!! maybe something can be done about it..even if it was me..(and i must confess that i am childish most of the times ;) ) !!!

so..hearing it from you would be great as keeping quiet wont solve the problem. i thank you for your concern though.

Originally posted by M5
raffee: frist of all all posts in this particular thread were based on comparison between the arabic sabla and the english sabla and we all are giving suggestions here about why the arabic sabla is better... obviously you don't read the arabic sabla. Second of all, you mentioned that , and I quote" but what good is it when those criticising arent offering actual strategies to improve it, or arent proactively implementing suggested strategies? " which shows that you don't understand the first thing about strategy except for using the word of course. Strategy is offered by those who moderate (administration) and direct the whole sabla to follow it. Members don't offer strategies, they only suggest and that's what we are doing now.

The problem her is a problem of evolution. New threads evolve from other silly threads and they keep on coming. Nothing is wrong with that if the goal is particulary that. Put if your goal is to make it as the arabic sabla then you have to take another approach. Again our argument is on how to make this sabla as good as the arabic sabla.

Dear M5, I dont think its fair to say that the Arabic Sabla is better than the English sabla, because they are very distinct bulletin boards if for no other reason than the difference in language, and asking such a question here assumes that all members are familiar with the Arabic sabla, which as you so preciously pointed out, is not the case.

Moreover, I was merely responding to the attacks being made on this sabla, because I feel I am only qualified to speak on this, as I only participate here, so dont blame me for not drawing comparisons, blame those who made random non-comparative criticisms about this sabla.

Now, onto your lovely attack on my own personal use of the word 'strategy'. I think you are out of line here, and I deeply resent your turning a general discussion into a personal attack on my understanding of the English language, because if you want to play that game, then Im afraid you're picking on the wrong person dear...:rolleyes: (go and revise your own language use please, before condemning others).

I would also advise that you practice what you preach. I tend to find (and I can assure that most will agree) that your own posts and contributions border on the humourous, less serious side of things...if you like I can give specific examples and links to your off-topic or sarcastic posts, so before proclaiming in disbelief that there are silly threads, why not try to steer clear of actually exacerbating this 'problem', before condemning.

Cheers

Reffee,

YOU TELL HIM GIRL

Are you into law or something. That was the most diplomatic, reverse phycology attack I have ever read. If I was the one who is being attacked, I would have bowed to you and just surrender. Me impress! :)


Now let us all forget about this, and go on with our business and make this place a better place to be, instead of whining all day. SHALL WE!

Originally posted by Deep Ocean
Raffee, with all due respect, I might not be as active as you are with 13.59 posts per day, good heavens! I do have other things to look after, nerveless, I do check on the sabla, and as I said it’s not a bad place to be, and its not that good, the moderators really have to consider topics which are worth reading, and edit or delete any other posts are the unwelcome into those threads. I recognize the members lounge is made for such talk but not for the General, Politic or Religion sabla.

I wouldn’t blame the moderators for not having the sufficient time to look all over the sabla and into each and every detail in it, I know that each one of them has their own life that has to be looked after, in addition to that, Its been noticed that a couple of moderators them selves seems to be a bit childish if I may say. Their comment on each member, say things that aren’t worth posting, some shoot up their number of posts and I can assure you not even half of it is quality.

If I had not cared about this place I wouldn’t have bothered saying a word, however, I would not like to see it going down, M5 said most of what I had to say, so I guess he got my voice to join his.

Just hoping this place would be a better place, wishing the moderators and the Admin best of luck.

One more thing, I assure you, whatever posts you would read by me would be of quality, so if I have nothing good to say id better leave the place in peace.

I hope this would be taken into consideration, hoping too that I have not offended anyone.

My regards,

Deep Ocean

Darling DO,

I fail to see how noting my daily number of contributions has anything to do with the price of fish, but since you want to stray off the topic then let me tell you I plan to be averaging 23.74 posts per day by the end of March.

I would also like to add that I too have plenty of other, more pressing things to attend to, apart from the sabla... being a mum of three for starters, so I dont really appreciate your inference that I have nothing better to do. Didnt your mommy ever tell you not to throw stones if you live in glass houses dear? tut tut. You know that I could be just as rude if I chose to be, but Im far too polite for such things.:p Thus, I shall forget your comment, and leave it to the mistake of 'jumping to hasty conclusions'. Best to learn about others before having a dig at them in future.

Now where were we? Hmm, I noticed you finally posted a thread. Seems like you took my advice after all and you've decided to take a proactive approach to improving the sabla. Good lass:).
Nice thread too, I must say.

I hope you enjoy this place as much as I do. Who knows, you might enjoy it so much that you post even more than me.

Best wishes,
Raf

Originally posted by Gollum
Reffee,

YOU TELL HIM GIRL

Are you into law or something. That was the most diplomatic, reverse phycology attack I have ever read. If I was the one who is being attacked, I would have bowed to you and just surrender. Me impress! :)


Now let us all forget about this, and go on with our business and make this place a better place to be, instead of whining all day. SHALL WE!

Thanks Neo, I aim to please.;)

Im still deciding whether law or politics is my niche, but Im leaning towards Journalism because that encompasses both of those areas I think.

...and before I get accused of being off-the-topic, I DO believe that the English sabla can be as great as it wants to be; the sky is the limit for this place, and I will defend it always.

Gosh! America started to bomb Iraq! …



Oh no wait a second! It’s the members having a fight! :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:


All of you chill out this minute, Deep Ocean, welcome to the sabla :) good to see your valid points, and hope to see more of your participations around. Raffee, What you up to girl? Im telling you girl be a lawyer! :D always have an answer don’t you?

M5 I see most of his posts in the business sabla I believe this guy is very smart. Just give him the chance :D

Right, Deep Ocean, if you have any problems with the Mods attitudes it would be nice if you send them a PM explaining to them what you mean, I am pretty sure that they would appreciate it :)

Originally posted by raffee
Now, onto your lovely attack on my own personal use of the word 'strategy'. I think you are out of line here, and I deeply resent your turning a general discussion into a personal attack on my understanding of the English language, because if you want to play that game, then Im afraid you're picking on the wrong person dear...:rolleyes: (go and revise your own language use please, before condemning others).

Cheers

good girl...... you just have proved to us that you don't understand the word strategy..... strategy has nothing to do with me being excellent in english or you beeing shaksbeer ( there you go take your chance I even misspelled shaksbeer).....strategy is not something you express in english words, strategy is something you deploy...... bad STRATETGY of you to attack M5.....

by the way just to show how you are so good in english... Strategy is not an english word.... it's a greek word taken from STRATA.....

regarding my silly posts, I am just going with the flow.... I am just going with your level of thinking.....

...funny how little it takes to make an ignorant boil.

I could rebut, hell maybe I should, but I know the mods wont approve, and might lock this wonderful thread... hence, I shall leave my 'courtroom style' for the ..erm...courtroom:rolleyes: .

Have a nice day!!!!:D

me? boil? from you? yeah right....

you have a big problem ya dalooo3a......


I am having a nice day.... infact i am listening to that song on your signature :cool:

See now you're just promoting chit-chat silly man, and you know I like to talk!

Actually, I do have a problem, but its small. Very very small.:)

Im listening to that song too.;)

Mmm from nice opinions that was for the sabla into member to member opion...come onn guyss chill up..
no need for as was said: starting a chit chat ..

and still the floor for more constructive opinions Open...
all the best all!

salam to all,
first i would like to thank the person who raised this thread, and it is really one of the best.
some members will disagree with me on what i am going to say now, however, i will say what i think could be good for this sabla in order to up grade it.
i do totally agree with mr. salim alharthy in what are the points that upgrade the disscussions in any forum or any sabla, and what he said is general ideas.
based on my experience in this sabla, it seems most of the discussions are general and like we still sailing in surfaces, and what i ment here we need more topics regarding oman and the problems we are facing it here.
if i could call this sabla, iam going to call it general english sabla, talking about generl or international economical, political intertainmental subjects which is not bad in one side but i do believe we should also concentrate in priority about oman, then gulf, then arab and then international subjects.
i am very proud with economic sabla which is one of the best where really can talk abourt oman economy.

therefore i wish from omanies in this sabla try to raise more topics regarding oman in any field (politics, economy, arts, sports, bussiness, culture...etc.), and i am sure through this topics we can upgrade this sabla.
i hope, everyone dont missunderstand me but i am one of members trying to make this sabla more valuable and in high quality

I hate going through useless debates, to me its just a waste of time, however I would like to comment on one thing you mentioned


Didn’t your mommy ever tell you not to throw stones if you live in glass houses dear? tut tut.


To be honest she has not, perhaps it is because i was too young when she passed away, though someone else was there to teach me, and here is something that i learnt from him.

[63] And the servants of (Allah) Most Gracious are those who walk on the earth in humility, and when the ignorant address them, they say, "Peace!" (25:63)

Now getting back to the topic, SoMe1 i don't think i need to address the moderators, one of them has already got what i was saying, & Am sure the others will realize it when its time for it.

I admire how the Admin and moderators are all anxious to know what are the members feed back on this topic, which certainly shows their interest to change and simultaneously upgrade the sablah.

I have done my part in this thread, I think we should listen to other comments from different members.

I shall reset my case.

Regards,

Deep Ocean.

Actually, a poll has been made a while ago of the age distribution of sabla members.. I believe it needs to be updated now that we have new members.. see the link below:

Age distribution of sabla members (http://www.englishsabla.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=6435)

as per the poll, most members are btwn 20~25 years old (i guess mostly univeristy students).. though we do have some older members..

Omania.net has a good selection of Omani intellectuals participating in the forum..many of them are people working in different sectors and from different parts of teh country, so they seem to know well whats going on the country... this is why it deals alot with issues that mainly concerns teh Omani population.. though there are several silly posters (this is the tax of its fame), you'll be amazed by teh number of tallented members and excellent pens they have..

English sabla's trend has taken a different direction.. and as M5 has mentioned, this is how it has evolved.. it tends to be more of an international forum.. and many members seem to be happy the way it is right now..

this is why it might not be fare to compare the two.. since each is taking a diferent direction..

English sabla has improved over the years... however, I believe we do have the capacity to improve it even more.. we do have great writers in here as well.. we just need more of them i guess..