You may have seen it already, but just wanted to bring to your notice the new section on Nepali News and World News. The news is syndicated from other popular sites so that sajha visitors can have quick access to News without having to leave the site.

Captain, the scrolling stops after one run on IE but keeps on scrolling in Firefox. In any case I have removed the scrolling now.

Need to start working on personalizing sajha through links like 'my home' in which you have done an amazing job i.e.

Captain'sHome

. I'll be working of letting members customize their home page better. Connecting all their blogs and postings under one page and giving an 'ownership'. Now that the site has more or less stabilized at around ten thousand visitors a day, I think it's time to focus more on the members themselves.

Please feel free to give any suggestions on blogs and/or other issues. Thanks!

San dai -

Yeah, I noticed that neat editor widget the other day and meant to say thanks but forgot Given the history of having to wear body armor to thank you , I hope you wont hold it against me that I missed this one - LOL!!

I have used the HTML editor a couple of times and like it. I am still trying to learn the ropes of the table tool - it is very easy to create a table using the tool but editing it can get a bit tricky at times :) But tables are messy things anyways so I should probably stop blaming the tool like a bad carpenter .. he he

Thanks for being open to suggestions about the blog section.The suggestion I have is it should be given more space than four lines in the main page and perhaps the sort should work the same way as Kurakani in terms of being sorted by the blog with the last comment on top. I'd also suggest having a featured "Blog of the day" where you pick one blog item and feature it.

I make these suggestions with a couple of things in mind. The success of a site, as you might agree, depends on being able to generate traffic and as research has shown (there is a Forrester survey out there somewhere on this), it is ultimately good content that generates traffic. It boils down to the better the content, the more the traffic and the more the traffic the better the business.

In light of this, besides the suggestion about the blog, I'd also suggest moving to a model where the thread owner gets administrative control over his or her thread. I have made this suggestion in another post as well. How it might work is the person who starts the thread can lay out the rules for posting to that thread and delete any posts that violate those rules. That way it would free you up from having to police each thread and also serve as a disincentive towards those people who mess up threads and prevent a sensible conversation from happening on any issue.

Doing so will also discourage people from having to be Gabber Singhs and Bandit Queens here on Sajha ie taking the 'law' into their own hands. Today when people post to Kurakani, they have to prepared to take crap from people whose main intentions appears to be to disrupt the conversation. The only option people have in dealing with such miscreants is to become jerks themselves and give the shit back. Which more often than not distracts from the main conversation at hand. That I believe is one important reason why good content might unfortunately stay away from Sajha. You might be aware, for example, of the conduits of a very famous deranged individual who prowls several Nepali websites. How fair is it that a thoughtful and sane individual who intends no harm to anyone should spend the better part of his or her time on Sajha warding of lunatics in order to keep a conversation going?

Of course there are others too, who are ok mentally, but are willfully disruptive and destructive. Currently, there is no remedy for such people other than referring them to you. That can sometimes be a painful process because what someone might consider a violation of their space another person might not. I think it should be left to the thread owner - just like it is in the Blog section and Ramjham - to decide what constitutes that violation. This I believe will to give people a greater sense of responsibility and might even generate loyalty and commitment towards Sajha.

In case someone doesn't like the owner of the thread, or is unhappy about their posts being removed, they they can stop posting to that person's thread and start their own thread.This will free you from having to intervene on every issue that comes up and allow you to focus on enhancements etc. The one place where you might still need to intervene would be in case of personal attacks. Which begs the question, why has Sajha been so lenient about personal attacks? A lot of the other networking sites out there have a much lower threshold for tolerating such attacks.

While I have you ear, if I may, I'd like to make another suggestion regarding groups. If you look at the way internet socializing has evolved, we've come a long way from the days when bulletin boards were the main platform of socializing to the MySpace world where groups are the main platform. Things have evolved from what it is that you want to talk about to who you want to talk about it with. I think the idea of having groups on Sajha would be terrific. Each person could have a friends list and share information with that list that they dont want to share with everyone. Today the only option to to that is to create a group in Yahoo, Google or MySpace and have a little Sajha away from Sajha. Some of us are already spending quite a bit of time on these "Little Sajhas" only because of the lack of groups here.

Thanks for hearing me out. These are just some thoughts made in the spirit of openness. It's your call as to what you want to do with these.

I'll leave you with something Tom Friedman said in "The World is Flat" where he talked about change:

What can be done, will be done. The question is will it be done by you or to you

As always, you rock!

:)

Capt. saab, very well said, as usual..Great suggestions.

San, I didn't notice it..it's a great idea though..no need to go to other sites..thanks again for your efforts to make this place better..

Thanks

Capt'n, Thread ownership is a good concept and I have put in that feature in sajha. Thanks for the suggestions as always. Time and resources permitting I will be considering incorporating some new features into the blog section as well as more focus on personal page. Regards

 

Notification of addition of edit capability.

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San dai -

That's neat!!! Great stuff. You are the best!

:)

GREAt jOB........

kEEP up wiTh GOODie woRK SAn BRO....

barvo bravoo..........ehehe

-rocks

The dotted frame while reading threads more of a hinderance than eye candy. Makes more clutter than distinction. Tyo ta atti nai jhilimili bhayoo houuuuu UNCLE SAN he he

So how much LOOT U won in tha weekend ? Heard the Pot wus hefty. he he

Yo ghar kasko AAhley ko
Bhitra bairaaa taaley ko
Jhilimili Batti Baley ko
Hariyo Goobar ley lipe ko
Yo Ghar kasko AAhley ko

san bro,
a couple of things have been effervescing in my stomach for a while. thought i would puke here before i mess up my cubicle hahahaha :P

1) i see the 'reply' link at the header of each post, but it doesn't seem to be working. it would be great if it could work, coz then we didn't need to quote and unquote to reply to a particular post within a thread.

2)the privilege for the starter/poster of a thread to delete a post is welcome. i would also recommend the privilege to be able to edit a post. that may spare us from writing immediate additional posts for typos and missed out points. a display of the time of last edit somewhere at the bottom of each post would be a perfect icing on the cake.

BC,
hahahahaha...you must surely be the lead vocalist of the deusi/bhailo gang back in the good ol' days hoina? :D

I agree with LooteBhai 100 percent. In what is otherwise a quite democratic Sajha, not letting us delete our own posting is the only totalistic peculiarity. If you can’t let us delete our own thread, at least let the owner of the thread edit his own posting (not the comments section, just the original posting).

You make one mistake out of a fleeting emotional error in etiquette; a dozen here seem to be waiting with: “gotcha”. That may not be us in essence.

We are exactly like us; one bad-traffic hour away from snapping at us. Let us edit us. PLEASE!

thanks sum_off dai for seconding my thoughts and more so for opining for the betterment of sajha. kudos!

Loote thanks for notifying of the broken link. It's been fixed. Since we're in the middle of revamping sajha, I thougth it was a perfect occassion to add the 'EDIT' capability as well which users had been requesting from a very long time.

I've set it up so that users can edit for 2 days after posting something. I think having the time limit makes it all the more interesting. Also I have changed the 'delete' limit to till after 7 days of post.

Sum_off, I look forward to reading more of your stories too. I hope the editing ability is helpful for you and all other writers in sajha.

Best Regards

[Added as an afterthought as a sample edit :) ]

Last edited: 02-Aug-07 09:33 PM

San dai -

Sweeeeet! :)

You are the best-est!

:) Last edited: 02-Aug-07 10:15 PM

oh man, i feel like im on a different forum. haha, the main page being same, forum layouts are completely changed. Happy to see "edit" function.

San dai, great work. how do i add those icons from bottom? i click, nothing happens. I copy and paste?

sorry, i haven't been here in a long ass time, but happy to see some changes.

 - edit:  edit really works. hahah.  just checking.  But i notice a long delay when you click submit and post reply.  any reason? or is it just me?
Last edited: 02-Aug-07 10:26 PM

cool ...san bro!

lemme edit hai ta...
i will type in some vulgar words and will edit afterwards hai ta hahaha

after edit: i lop u all!!!! :) :P
Last edited: 06-Aug-07 02:16 PM

Yesoooo herdaaa ta cha ni San Uncle home page taaaa tyo Hindustan ma riksaawalll ley afno risaww sajhayeko justai dekincha. kyaaaa jhalllaarrrr, kya colorrr, wah wah ye to bindraban jesai hai rey !!

well, San bro,
don't know how to say this but it's weird. it's good to see the editor not allowing to type in vulgar words but how on earth is a word vulgar if JUST a part of it in english or in language other than english happens to be a bad word?

our editor is way too smart for me :D

"compooting"

does it ring the bell? :P

"Yesoooo herdaaa ta cha ni San Uncle home page taaaa tyo Hindustan ma riksaawalll ley afno risaww sajhayeko justai dekincha. kyaaaa jhalllaarrrr, kya colorrr, wah wah ye to bindraban jesai hai rey !!"

LMAO! BC, that's the funniest thing I have ever heard you say!

Looks like it worked though, the twinkling pink bullets on the Kurakani section have given way to slicker red arrow heads.

:)

Loots - Have you tried typing the name of the President of Russia - that's another case of editor malfunction

San Bro - The edit and delete functions are very neat. Good job there.

:)

FINALLY!!!!

some editing!!!

I've made a lot of errors in the investment thread, never had a time to go back and edit them.

Now it seems more doable!!!

THANKS SAN!!!

LONG LIVE SAJHA!!!