So has ASEAN NOW bitten the dust?

[cowslip]

I see none of the web addresses for ASEAN is functional anymore - does anyone have info? A major end of all operations seems a very final blow.

[Vigo]

I noticed that too. Is it too soon for me to guffaw and emit rowdy laughter? I haven't read the forums  in close to a year.  

[cowslip]

I have to confess to a certain frisson of schadenfreude......

[1000YearVampire]

 

From the ASEAN NOW facebook page, make of it what you will:

UPDATE:
Dear users, we are in the process of migrating ASEAN NOW to a new more powerful cloud server with bigger capacity, as we are growing and need more power.

We will be back online after maintenance move by end of this week.

Sorry for the inconvenience !

17.28 16/11

 

ASEANNOW is experiencing cloud storage  issues and users in some locations can not reach our site.

Our hosting provider are having DDOS attacks this morning which they are trying to resolve. We can’t do anything, we just have to wait.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

 

11.23 16/11

 

[TedG]

If a cloud provider can't deal with a DDoS attack, then they need a new cloud provider. 

[cowslip]

39 minutes ago, 1000YearVampire said:

From the ASEAN NOW facebook page, make of it what you will:

UPDATE:
Dear users, we are in the process of migrating ASEAN NOW to a new more powerful cloud server with bigger capacity, as we are growing and need more power.

We will be back online after maintenance move by end of this week.

Sorry for the inconvenience !

17.28 16/11

ASEANNOW is experiencing cloud storage  issues and users in some locations can not reach our site.

Our hosting provider are having DDOS attacks this morning which they are trying to resolve. We can’t do anything, we just have to wait.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

11.23 16/11

You do realise this post is out of date? Various "by this week-end"s and "end of this week"s  have come and gone

[cowslip]

If it's been hacked, one wonders if any member details have been leaked - do we have to prepare for a flood of junk mail?

 

Or maybe someone had a grudge against a moderator!?!?!

 

[Lowseasonlover]

1 hour ago, cowslip said:

If it's been hacked, one wonders if any member details have been leaked - do we have to prepare for a flood of junk mail?

Or maybe someone had a grudge against a moderator!?!?!

I think a few people have grudges against a lot of them mod's 

[Thailand]

A forum full of ads and click bait everywhere and the recent influx of posters than post only garbage has probably caused AN to self destruct.

Wonder if they had a back up or someone nicked it? 

[1000YearVampire]

6 hours ago, cowslip said:

You do realise this post is out of date?

Of course, posted for information only; what's really going on is anybody's guess.

[Pinetree]

Someone on here knows,  because you can bet your last Dollar that the owners of that forum are also anonymous members of this one. 

[Marc26]

5 hours ago, Lowseasonlover said:

I think a few people have grudges against a lot of them mod's 

Mod is a hard job on these forums 

 

It's a thankless job

 

Whenever I ran into a mod in person I always made sure to buy them drinks 

 

Even on this forum, I felt the rules could be a bit heavy handed but I'd never make a fuss about them

[Pinetree]

18 minutes ago, Marc26 said:

Mod is a hard job on these forums 

It's a thankless job

Whenever I ran into a mod in person I always made sure to buy them drinks 

Even on this forum, I felt the rules could be a bit heavy handed but I'd never make a fuss about them

Moderation, with a light hand, is obviously necessary to avoid a nasty free for all.  However, being treated like a naughty child on that other forum was unacceptable. Example, like many expats, I am no fan of the British Embassy.  When I criticized it for the lack of covid response,  I was banned for one month, as the Embassy was a member  of the forum. I was told by the moderator to take that time to think over my 'crime' and come back a better person.  What an arrogant and unnecessary comment.  I never went back. This forum gets it right. 

[Lowseasonlover]

50 minutes ago, Marc26 said:

Mod is a hard job on these forums 

It's a thankless job

Whenever I ran into a mod in person I always made sure to buy them drinks 

Even on this forum, I felt the rules could be a bit heavy handed but I'd never make a fuss about them

Not an easy job for sure, 

[Fluke]

1 hour ago, Pinetree said:

Moderation, with a light hand, is obviously necessary to avoid a nasty free for all.  However, being treated like a naughty child on that other forum was unacceptable. Example, like many expats, I am no fan of the British Embassy.  When I criticized it for the lack of covid response,  I was banned for one month, as the Embassy was a member  of the forum. I was told by the moderator to take that time to think over my 'crime' and come back a better person.  What an arrogant and unnecessary comment.  I never went back. This forum gets it right. 

 

   Some of the replies to the British Embassy were rather coarse and rude and not the type of language  expected  when corresponding with Embassy officials .

   The Embassy wasn't required to post on ASEANNOW and all they seemed to get was abuse from self entitled Brits who seemed to think that the British Embassy was the N.H.S , Scotland Yard , the DHSS , a travel agent and their Mum, all rolled into one 

[Pinetree]

3 minutes ago, Fluke said:

   Some of the replies to the British Embassy were rather coarse and rude and not the type of language  expected  when corresponding with Embassy officials .

   The Embassy wasn't required to post on ASEANNOW and all they seemed to get was abuse from self entitled Brits who seemed to think that the British Embassy was the N.H.S , Scotland Yard , the DHSS , a travel agent and their Mum, all rolled into one 

You have no idea what I posted and without wishing to  derail this post subject, Embassy Officials have no right to extra protection from comments and criticism when they resort to a public forum.  Are you by any chance a that forum owner?? 

[Fluke]

3 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

You have no idea what I posted and without wishing to  derail this post subject, Embassy Officials have no right to extra protection from comments and criticism when they resort to a public forum.  Are you by any chance a that forum owner?? 

I wasn't necessarily talking about your replies though , I was talking about replies in general . 

   When you speak with the Embassy , you really should speak in a respectful way , in the same way they they speak to you .

   They stopped posting after a while, which was probably due  to the rude and abusive posters .

   I am not a forum owner, but it was embarrassing to read all the self entitled posters moaning to the Embassy .

   "Get off the golf course and come around my house and give me a covid vaccination you lazy blah blah blah "

[Pinetree]

9 minutes ago, Fluke said:

When you speak with the Embassy , you really should speak in a respectful way

Why?  Explain that comment? I treat them as I would treat any organization that is established to provide services on behalf of the UK Government,  that tax payers finance, but comprehensively fails on almost every level.  

Anyway, way off topic so no more posts 

[Fluke]

2 minutes ago, Pinetree said:

Why?  Explain that comment? I treat them as I would treat any organization that is established to provide services on behalf of the UK Government,  that tax payers finance, but comprehensively fails on almost every level.  

 

   You should interact with them in Middle class kind of way, rather than a Working class kind of way . Like speak properly and make an effort with your attire

  What services do you expect the Embassy to provide ?

[Pinetree]

4 minutes ago, Fluke said:

   You should interact with them in Middle class kind of way, rather than a Working class kind of way . Like speak properly and make an effort with your attire

  What services do you expect the Embassy to provide ?

Off topic , start a new post if you want to discuss this 

[soilspoil]

Guess a lot of (former) Asean Now poster will come here. The lack of information on why or how is another form of sheer arrogance and ignorance. I will cancel my account once back online, either by asking the mods or forcing a ban. I was in since 2004 and have helped out 100's of people with all kind of information about living in LOS. You cannot treat loyal members like this. So, hello Thaiger from now on.

[SnapDragon]

A lot of members did leave TV/AN and came across, when the forum opened up. The heavy handed authoritarian moderation was on this site in the early days, and dozens of members (who came across from AN/TV) were lost.

The TT mods, who were so full of themselves, have now - thankfully - left.

The balance at the present time is just about right. IMO.

[Vigo]

13 minutes ago, Sticky said:

A lot of members did leave TV/AN and came across, when the forum opened up. The heavy handed authoritarian moderation was on this site in the early days, and dozens of members (who came across from AN/TV) were lost.

The TT mods, who were so full of themselves, have now - thankfully - left.

The balance at the present time is just about right. IMO.

Jingthing, is that you?

[Vigo]

 

4 hours ago, Marc26 said:

Mod is a hard job on these forums 

It's a thankless job

Whenever I ran into a mod in person I always made sure to buy them drinks 

Even on this forum, I felt the rules could be a bit heavy handed but I'd never make a fuss about them

Good grief. That is a statement that elicits disgust and causes me to ask if you knew who some of those people were? Do you have an interest in deviant behavior and are you perhaps writing a tell all book on the dark secrets of Thailand's internet sites? Let me take you down, the memory lane of creepiness. 

 katabeachbum: He was a Phuket forum moderator and Thai highway police moderator. A fine upstanding Norwegian , until the popo discovered the dismembered body of his "girlfriend" in barrels in the basement of this  home.   https://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-body-bin-human-forensic-police-raid-expat-mansion-15589/        For a time, some would make inquiries as to what happened. The posts would quickly disappear, and a persistence in asking for transparency  would result in a ban.   

Bonobo: He was allegedly a former command USMC officer (self proclaimed) with an alleged  collection of pornographic websites. (I tried to visit some of them, but all the urls are dead.)   He was also linked to a Russian dating site, touting his own experience with a 17 year old. He disappeared shortly after the first purchase of the website when the new owners started to verify their moderators. (A great many mods departed at that time. Some say, they wanted the change. However, I am of the view that they couldn't meet certain  requirements of the new owners.)  Perhaps he is in jail, or dead, or maybe leading a chaste clean life. Such are the mysteries of  ThaiVisa.

PeaceBlondie: This was one bundle of weirdness. He  had been married with children and then all of a sudden went bisexual, then gay. His tales were the type that made me feel sorry for his children. He wasn't a bad guy  it seemed, just that he had a creepy vibe. He had a stroke and couldn't do much afterwards,  and finally died before Covid. I felt sorry for him.

Endure: This was the epitome of evil screwed up moderators. He was a machinist on freighters that plied the Asian-USA routes. He took up with a  filipino ladyboy. He had quite a chip on his shoulder and was always trying to prove how tough he was, provoking forum members who didn't share his views on his lifestyle choice. When the new ownership cleaned house, he disappeared. I always pictured him as a potbellied old grouch, with a hairy neck, hairy big cauliflowered ears and untamed hairs poking out of a blackhead filled pockmarked bulbous nose. I expect that he is probably dead by now.

CDNVic: This was a nasty guy. Just plain mean and condescending too.  I had the impression that he would intentionally provoke some members just so he could suspend or ban them. He is apparently from Victoria, BC, Canada. That explains a lot about his mindset. Victoria is like Century village retirement gated community for angry white people.

MetisDead: I can't think of anyone who has a nice thing to say about him.

The original IT Webmaster: Long ago the  man who was the go to guy for the website IT setup was implicated in a child abuse case. His name has since disappeared from the internet, and all traces of the story seem to have disappeared years ago. Old timers may remember this man.

SBK: She was quite the active moderator. Ever present and one of the few with a modicum of common sense. And then, the embarrassment of Chiang Mai occurred when she was outed publicly as a TVF Mod.  I don't think her local activities and TVF were compatible, and she quickly disappeared from the website.  

Ijustwannateach: Another one with a high icky characteristic. He is a teacher, and met every negative, nasty stereotype. His website photos indicate a prissy, pudgy white man. He was eventually outed as a man who (allegedly) roamed the gay sex sites and was trying to sell himself as a devout christian. (After the exposure his MySpace profile went private).   I won't repeat the preferences that he allegedly indicated on one of his dating profiles, but they will make you want to disinfect after reading.

Oh they had such high hopes for thaivisa as a brand.  How many people can remember Bangkok Chat? It was an internet chat room  that Thai Visa sold off. It didn't last more than a few years.  

Golly gee, I have been around way too long and have morphed into one of the  grumpy oldtimers I used to laugh at way back when I was a hansum man.

 

[RampantRabbit]

I liked  the posters Guesthouse, Bendix and the guy that signed off "the  glorious land of Thais" sarcasm? cant remember his name....all long  gone