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Just want to ask, why is esato in the dark ages in terms of the board

It just seems no fun anymore to be on here, like i go on other forums for my bike and theres people full on slagging the shite out of each other and theres a real sense of community

and here you get asked to put a asterix or whatever if you swear or cant post anything that might be deemed offencive or it gets removed etc

For example last year i posted a thread about a man who got in court for shagging a bike - what was wrong with that. Would've made a good few people laugh and if people weren't going to like it then why would they click it. Needless to say it was deleted within about 2 minutes.

I just feel these boards are well to strict, and formal. I know this board isn't like the streamlined phpBB and Invision boards for security reasons amongst others but wheres the fun in having a mobile phone that you dont own in your avatar or not being able to have a pic or colour in your sig? Most people have more than a 28k line these days (Y)

As far as im concered theres only one section of the forum worth visiting and thats the non mobile discussion. Fair enough its a mobile forum etc etc but its the community most come here daily.

In conclusion i just feel the forum has lost all of its appeal to recurring members and seems to have lost the community feel. To me anyway

Slate me or agree - just reply

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Posted: 2008-07-03 05:28:20
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No offense, but if there was a real problem here, and if others had the same problem, I don't think Esato would have so many regular users who come back here everyday.

I don't know what you mean about the community thing, because for me Esato has the best community of any other forum I visit.

I don't mind that you have your viewpoint, I'm just saying mine.
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Posted: 2008-07-03 06:06:49
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i like it this way.. please never change..!!
one should improve it.. not change..it..!! its been years i have been surfing esato.com and i have only used sony ericsson cell phones and the day i got my first cell phone i was aware about esato.com .. its been like 6 years now i guess.. just love..it..

the main reason behind this old age forum is its fast and easy.. !! new age has good designs no doubt but lil slow man its like a cell phone the P900/P910 was way better than P1i/P990 cause it was really fast !!!

the day i bought p990i my intrest from cell phones got over cause at that time i saw many nokia cell phones getting virus and hangs and p990i damn it was really slow but then later the firmware made it easy.. but still compare with p900/p910... p990 is BS !!!

anyways i don't really complaint.. there are other factors to be seen and lets wait for xperia i'm sure it wont be as fast as p900/p910 but those were the days man..
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Posted: 2008-07-03 06:35:43
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what about the users who log on via gprs etc?

i can see why images in sigs have been disabled as some members may put big, distracting ones and eat up bandwidth for those on a limited connection and it takes longer for the page to load
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Posted: 2008-07-03 10:37:15
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I agree with this.
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Posted: 2008-07-03 10:49:48
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I don't really see how "slagging the shite out of each other" helps to create a "real sense of community" - tbh, for a phone forum Esato probably has a much better sense of community than most, if only because its members are expected to behave a little better.

We all like a good slanging match and Esato has plenty of those - they just happen to a bit more polite, usually, which is a good thing. You get a proper debate here, rather than the quick descent into personal insults that some forums suffer from.

At the end of the day, I've been here for about seven years on and off, and it's not really changed a great deal - still just as popular, still the number one SE site (despite plenty more competition), so if it ain't broke? Maybe it's just not for you.
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Posted: 2008-07-03 11:20:37
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I think the content allowed of the non mob discussion could be relaxed a little.

Not to the point where we all start posting porn, but real news stories like the one you mentioned and like the one I remember posting about the Austrian man who nail-gunned his testicle into his roof. It's a good laugh to read but it was deemed inappropriate.

Is there no chance you can add a feature that allows users can mark certain articles as inappropriate for general view, so that only logged in users can view the thread?
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Posted: 2008-07-03 16:05:12
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^^


or simply move then to garbage


the garbage section seems a bit... dead
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Posted: 2008-07-03 16:45:47
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On 2008-07-03 16:05:12, arien617 wrote:
I think the content allowed of the non mob discussion could be relaxed a little.

Not to the point where we all start posting porn, but real news stories like the one you mentioned and like the one I remember posting about the Austrian man who nail-gunned his testicle into his roof. It's a good laugh to read but it was deemed inappropriate.

Is there no chance you can add a feature that allows users can mark certain articles as inappropriate for general view, so that only logged in users can view the thread?


Like certain other sites that we now frequent?

[ This Message was edited by: Dicky Snapples on 2008-07-03 20:21 ]
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Posted: 2008-07-03 21:19:00
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I think one of the biggest problems is that Esato does quite well on Google and so if somebody posts a story that is currently a popular search term, Esato will get tons of extra hits.

Is that good? Well, yes. If they're also into mobile phones or like clicking on adverts, that is.

But unfortunately, not many "casual" visitors are into those things and so will just be adding to bandwidth without contributing anything to the site.
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Posted: 2008-07-03 21:39:08
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