Pappy Rual
20-08-00, 12:27 PM
First of all let me say that omanforums claims that they get 15000 hits per day is NONSENSE. how do i know this; well because when i told them on the forum it is a lie, by looking at their page counter, THE MODERATORS BANNED ME. For NO REASON AT ALL.
then whenever i posted something they deleted it, especially when i criticized them for something which deserved criticizm.
DONT GO TO OMANFORUM THEY ARE A BUNCH OF STUPID SHIT BRAINS
This is what I mean moderator of Omanforum has officially claimed in the oman leading newspaper ( times of oman ) that the hits omanforum gets in a day is 15,000 and total hits as at 12 Jun 2000 was 700,000 but even today, two months have passed and the hits has reached 421,000 (unless salim changes the hits number ) , despite all of omanforum pages have hit counters and not on the entrance of the site only. For example, each person reads, posts or visits the page is counted more than once.
Quote of the Times of Oman newspaper dated 12 Jun 2000 reported by Omanforum
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OmanTimes talk about OmanForum on today's Issue
Omanforum website denies whipping up controversy
Two top officials of a popular Internet site omanforum has defended allegations that their site was whipping up a controversy with debatable topics.
"In fact, we do not discuss any controversial topics," stressed Salim Al Harthy, the brain behind the first site of its kind in Oman and Osamah Abdullatif, the site’s administrator.
"We do not discuss any offensive topics and have so far kept away from such discussions," Salim Al Harthy emphasised.
"We have stricter rules than any other boards, and we don’t want to be a controversial board — that’s definitely not something we strive for," Osamah added.
In a wide ranging interview with the Times of Oman Salim and Osamah dispelled all rumours surrounding their popular forum and in short, proved to be as open and honest as their forum is. The duo also gave an insight into what has made the forum such a success and where they were planning to take it. According to the innovative duo, the sky is the limit.
"When I began Omanforum, my target was to make it the most visited English site in Oman. I think I have achieved the target now for the site is receiving 15,000 hits per day on an average, and since its launch on January 5, it has notched up at least 700,000 hits."
Asked if the authorities were frowning down on their site, both responded in the negative.
"There was no offensive topic that was discussed in Omanforum. My moderators, administrators and myself are monitoring the site on a 24 hours cycle. Most of the topics are genuine and it is day-to-day-discussions. In fact, the same topics, can be printed in a newspaper or announced on the radio," noted Salim.
"I believe that Omantel and the ministries concerned are reasonable and if they have any guidelines or rules, we will be glad to abide by them," added Osamah.
Asked why the members were under the mysterious cloak of anonymity, both Salim and Osamah had their ready answers.
"They have to be anonymous, that is the whole point of the forum in particular and Internet in general. It is not that the members are afraid of revealing their identity, they are merely protecting their own privacy," Salim noted.
Osamah added: "Why do members use nicknames? Well, every member has a profile. You click on the profile button in any message they post and it takes you to a page with their details, including their name. If they choose not to put their names, there is nothing wrong with it, and we cannot do anything about it.
"But, of course, I can understand why some people don’t want to put their names, maybe because of their position or where they work."
To a query as to why the forum criticised a particular Omani I-T expert, both of them rose to defend the move.
"He was attacked only on the professional front. If I thought for a second that they were attacking him on his personal side, I would have deleted the topic at once. And it was not just criticism, but a good amount of praise too," Salim said. "If someone criticised this I-T expert, it is because he is a public figure. We cannot stop people from criticising any aspect of a person’s professional side, but we can and do stop them from making it just a place to insult him or anyone else. We will edit or delete any personal attacks on anyone. In fact, we discourage personal attacks of any kind," Osamah said. He added that Omanforum does not survive on shock value, "because we are not here to shock anyone".
"It is only a discussion forum, a reflection of what people see. We have rules and guidelines that all members must abide by. We will not allow the forum to simply get on by shock value."
Even the topics that are discussed could vary, he stressed, noting that it could be anything from "a student asking if it is better to go to the US or UK; a computer user who wants to help with his PC or a particular application; someone wants to discuss a movie or book that they read; someone wants to discuss a current event; someone wants to post a story or a poem…in fact, you can share views on anything."
Those who have not visited the site, should know that the Omanforum is an electronic bulletin board where people living in Oman (Omanis and expatriates), Gulf, the entire Arab world can meet and discuss various aspects related to Omanis in particular, or just about anything in general.
The sections include ‘I-T’ (where they can discuss issues related to I-T), computer questions, Internet, latest technology, PC trouble shooting (moderator, Dareez); ‘politics and religion’ where politics in general which are usually discussed on the local TV or news media.
The same goes with religion (moderator, Moddy); ‘entertainment’ where anything related to entertainment, movies, books, shows (moderator, Muscati); ‘local gossip’ (moderator, Ocean Dream); ‘cars and sports’ where the discussion borders on the latest cars, their specifications, troubleshooting etc., plus discussions on soccer, basketball, cricket etc; ‘student life’ this forum is for students and ex-students (moderator: Rose Bud); ‘open forum’, where members can discuss anything as long as the topic is not related to any of the above topics (moderators Mu$k and Katchori); ‘flame forum’ where members can spit venom either to ‘flame’ (or torch) a specific member or a specific service (moderator, Muscati).
"The reason that we came up with this forum is that we noticed many members tend to flame each other on a specific forum. Now, they can flame each other on this forum," Salim said.
Reflecting on how the forum began, Salim noted: "It all began when I launched an auto site and I had this forum as a section in this site. I soon realised that my auto site was visited just for the sake of participating in this open forum. Without much ado, I began the new forum omanforum
The response was fantastic and even today ‘thank you’ mails were pouring in, Salim notes. "I have visitors from US, UK, Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Holland, Nigeria and Japan … these countries are ranked according to the hits the forum receives."
Salim’s goal is to make the Omanforum as ‘user friendly’ as possible.
"I want it to be a place where people can get the help they need in terms of information, answers to queries, etc.," he said.
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then whenever i posted something they deleted it, especially when i criticized them for something which deserved criticizm.
DONT GO TO OMANFORUM THEY ARE A BUNCH OF STUPID SHIT BRAINS
This is what I mean moderator of Omanforum has officially claimed in the oman leading newspaper ( times of oman ) that the hits omanforum gets in a day is 15,000 and total hits as at 12 Jun 2000 was 700,000 but even today, two months have passed and the hits has reached 421,000 (unless salim changes the hits number ) , despite all of omanforum pages have hit counters and not on the entrance of the site only. For example, each person reads, posts or visits the page is counted more than once.
Quote of the Times of Oman newspaper dated 12 Jun 2000 reported by Omanforum
==========================================
OmanTimes talk about OmanForum on today's Issue
Omanforum website denies whipping up controversy
Two top officials of a popular Internet site omanforum has defended allegations that their site was whipping up a controversy with debatable topics.
"In fact, we do not discuss any controversial topics," stressed Salim Al Harthy, the brain behind the first site of its kind in Oman and Osamah Abdullatif, the site’s administrator.
"We do not discuss any offensive topics and have so far kept away from such discussions," Salim Al Harthy emphasised.
"We have stricter rules than any other boards, and we don’t want to be a controversial board — that’s definitely not something we strive for," Osamah added.
In a wide ranging interview with the Times of Oman Salim and Osamah dispelled all rumours surrounding their popular forum and in short, proved to be as open and honest as their forum is. The duo also gave an insight into what has made the forum such a success and where they were planning to take it. According to the innovative duo, the sky is the limit.
"When I began Omanforum, my target was to make it the most visited English site in Oman. I think I have achieved the target now for the site is receiving 15,000 hits per day on an average, and since its launch on January 5, it has notched up at least 700,000 hits."
Asked if the authorities were frowning down on their site, both responded in the negative.
"There was no offensive topic that was discussed in Omanforum. My moderators, administrators and myself are monitoring the site on a 24 hours cycle. Most of the topics are genuine and it is day-to-day-discussions. In fact, the same topics, can be printed in a newspaper or announced on the radio," noted Salim.
"I believe that Omantel and the ministries concerned are reasonable and if they have any guidelines or rules, we will be glad to abide by them," added Osamah.
Asked why the members were under the mysterious cloak of anonymity, both Salim and Osamah had their ready answers.
"They have to be anonymous, that is the whole point of the forum in particular and Internet in general. It is not that the members are afraid of revealing their identity, they are merely protecting their own privacy," Salim noted.
Osamah added: "Why do members use nicknames? Well, every member has a profile. You click on the profile button in any message they post and it takes you to a page with their details, including their name. If they choose not to put their names, there is nothing wrong with it, and we cannot do anything about it.
"But, of course, I can understand why some people don’t want to put their names, maybe because of their position or where they work."
To a query as to why the forum criticised a particular Omani I-T expert, both of them rose to defend the move.
"He was attacked only on the professional front. If I thought for a second that they were attacking him on his personal side, I would have deleted the topic at once. And it was not just criticism, but a good amount of praise too," Salim said. "If someone criticised this I-T expert, it is because he is a public figure. We cannot stop people from criticising any aspect of a person’s professional side, but we can and do stop them from making it just a place to insult him or anyone else. We will edit or delete any personal attacks on anyone. In fact, we discourage personal attacks of any kind," Osamah said. He added that Omanforum does not survive on shock value, "because we are not here to shock anyone".
"It is only a discussion forum, a reflection of what people see. We have rules and guidelines that all members must abide by. We will not allow the forum to simply get on by shock value."
Even the topics that are discussed could vary, he stressed, noting that it could be anything from "a student asking if it is better to go to the US or UK; a computer user who wants to help with his PC or a particular application; someone wants to discuss a movie or book that they read; someone wants to discuss a current event; someone wants to post a story or a poem…in fact, you can share views on anything."
Those who have not visited the site, should know that the Omanforum is an electronic bulletin board where people living in Oman (Omanis and expatriates), Gulf, the entire Arab world can meet and discuss various aspects related to Omanis in particular, or just about anything in general.
The sections include ‘I-T’ (where they can discuss issues related to I-T), computer questions, Internet, latest technology, PC trouble shooting (moderator, Dareez); ‘politics and religion’ where politics in general which are usually discussed on the local TV or news media.
The same goes with religion (moderator, Moddy); ‘entertainment’ where anything related to entertainment, movies, books, shows (moderator, Muscati); ‘local gossip’ (moderator, Ocean Dream); ‘cars and sports’ where the discussion borders on the latest cars, their specifications, troubleshooting etc., plus discussions on soccer, basketball, cricket etc; ‘student life’ this forum is for students and ex-students (moderator: Rose Bud); ‘open forum’, where members can discuss anything as long as the topic is not related to any of the above topics (moderators Mu$k and Katchori); ‘flame forum’ where members can spit venom either to ‘flame’ (or torch) a specific member or a specific service (moderator, Muscati).
"The reason that we came up with this forum is that we noticed many members tend to flame each other on a specific forum. Now, they can flame each other on this forum," Salim said.
Reflecting on how the forum began, Salim noted: "It all began when I launched an auto site and I had this forum as a section in this site. I soon realised that my auto site was visited just for the sake of participating in this open forum. Without much ado, I began the new forum omanforum
The response was fantastic and even today ‘thank you’ mails were pouring in, Salim notes. "I have visitors from US, UK, Oman, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Holland, Nigeria and Japan … these countries are ranked according to the hits the forum receives."
Salim’s goal is to make the Omanforum as ‘user friendly’ as possible.
"I want it to be a place where people can get the help they need in terms of information, answers to queries, etc.," he said.
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<font size=1>[This message has been edited by Pappy Rual (edited 08-20-2000).]</font>