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That kind of makes two of us, Uncle Frank. I grew up with three sisters and four female cousins all living in the immediate area of a somewhat enclosure of woods on the edges of two different subdivisions. In tests, I constantly come up as having an 'overlapped' brain--meaning I lean towards a feminine male brain.


But, regarding the question of a female moderator, I think it would be nice, indeed.

The candidates for staff membership are hand picked by especially the administrators, and then a 'vote' is conducted to check for approval. Some of the key factors that I would say are studied would be 1.) posting history, 2.) length of time at JREF, and 3.) evidenced disposition of fairness and justice in judging along with general attitude towards what fundamentally JREF stands for in relation to being about Japan.
 
Female moderators... hmm. AFAIK, there hasn't been female members who have stayed very long, many of them coming and going. I suspect many have commitments other than coming here to JREF?

Nearly all of the respected JREF members are male.
 
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To add to that, if I may, in the time that I have been a member here at JREF, there have been four female moderators--including epigene. At the bottom right of the largest box on the main page (just above 'what's going on') one can see the list of administrators and moderators at present.
 
Uncle Frank said:
Can I count as a woman ? The last 25 years I have worked in jobs where there were very few men and the women consider me one of them. They have brainwashed me so much, I'm not sure about my gender anymore?
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That's a bit weird. Um... How could you forget that? Just look down.
 
mm sory maybe for being in some sence incompetent...but actually I think u shouldn't be influenced by the society.. talking in psycological terminology it's some kind of conformism. Being a women is the most beautifu thing in the world!!!!!!! And do u now what.. I assume that the problem is not hidden in u.. but in THEM... in this majority of women that have a strong necessity in men. Just think about it and try to change smth in your life start with the style=)
 
A Rant Thread?

How about a sub thread for people looking to just vent and rant? No replies would be allowed as it would just be a thread for those wishing to vent their frustrations against high oil prices, discrimination in Japan, I hate my life, the world sucks, I hate everyone, etc., etc.

It would just be a place for people to vent their frustrations about anything. If someone feels the need to reply, they could start their own thread referring to the posters rant.

Just a thought as it might be interesting.
 

Please feel free to start the thread.
 
Good idea

Oh..... that was a really good idea to post such thread.. so people could feel theirselves better may be from now on..... ))))))))))))))

AND PEOPLE NEVER FORGET LIFE IS ORANGE=)BE OPTIMISTS)))))))
 
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If I may, then, I'd like to offer that such a thread be started in Chit Chat & Miscellaneous. However, I'm inclined to think that I (or another JREF Team member) should be the one opening the thread, so as to set the guidelines within the thread--otherwise, we could have spill out. (and I mean negative spillout).

For example, one thing would have to be whether we'd want a real thread--one is really ranting, and is serious about it, or whether we'd want a humours thread. The former is probably what Pachipro had had in mind, and what ASHIKAGA has in mind too.

We would have to follow the Forum Rules (especially #1), and that would mean no personal attacks, or statements coming close enough to such that the object of a negative statement/claim could feel as though they were being attacked in any way. It would also have to follow Forum Rule #3 (Keep Your Posts (Family-)Friendly).

I would also disagree that it would be positive-in-outcome to allow commenting on the rants both within the thread or on other thread starts about a post within the thread. It would possibly be productive to start a thread about a matter or issue which had been the cause (or source) of the rant, however, on a thread in the correct area for that subject matter--for the example the pros and cons on 'working over time on what is otherwise a national holiday' or such.

I will strongly consider opening and sticking such a thread in the very near future after waiting a bit longer here to see if there would be any objections from the JREF Team, or from those who wish for such a thread. I do strongly reason that it'd be best to let a JREF Team member open that with a explanatory note and guidelines.
 
What about ......................

"The Bummer and Rant" thread we already have?? It sounds pretty close to what we are describing here. It's been around a long time and has several pages of "complaints".

Uncle Frank


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I don't think I could really rant/vent in such a controlled/moderated environment. Oh, well... I guess I'll have to stick to bothering my family who is REALLY not interested in what I have to say about those "little things in life" that annoy the fudge out of me. :auch:
 
Pachipro said:
No replies would be allowed as it would just be a thread for those wishing to vent their frustrations against high oil prices, discrimination in Japan, I hate my life, the world sucks, I hate everyone, etc., etc.
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As per your PM, Pachipro, it's technically not possible to prevent other users from replying/posting to your thread.
 
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"The Bummer and Rant" thread we already have?? It sounds pretty close to what we are describing here. It's been around a long time and has several pages of "complaints".
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You are quite correct Frank. I was thinking more along the lines of a similar thread to allow others to "Sound Off" about anything they want to get "off their chest" (much as the Bummer thread does), but with no replies allowed so there would be no flaming or arguments. Since, as Admin mentioned above, it is not possible, than my request is mute as the Bummer and Rant thread provides that release.
 
Which is why I had put it the way I had. The present thread is already there, is old, is open, and cannot be suddenly changed.

To fit the bill more closely to what Pachipro originally presented, a new thread would surely have to be created, and, pinned--thus would not shift out of sight with lack of usage. It would have to start off with a full explanation, so as to let members know that answering or responding to rants on that thread is not allowed, and any found will without question be deleted. (this is also because mechanically, it cannot be done)

If others of the team, feel it might be fair to try it, then I'd be more than happy to open it. If it doesn't seem to work (given plenty of time for testing) we could, of course merge it with the old one after some testing period.

However, as has been noticed, it would have to have some control. JREF is not the kind of site that would allow a totally 'nothing barred, anything and everything goes' rant and complaint session thread. In that sense, it might not work as well as Pachipro's invisioned thread might.
 
And, as you mentioned MM, it would have to be civil as this is not an "adult only" site. Some restraint by posters would have to be made so as to not sound racist or profane and I could see how it could get out of hand. There would have to be too much monitoring and you all don't have the time to be here all the time to delete a post that may offend some before it gets deleted. Maybe it was not such a good idea afterall on second thought. Thanks for considering it anyway.
 
As a man of the people for the people, I know what they want. The people of Jref would like to see a shrine to the greatest man alive. **Drum roll** Justin! Please no need to throw roses!

No really, I would like to see a 'member of the month' or something to show respect outstanding Jref members. It might be a bit of a pain since we got a lot great people here.
 
I think the Japanese friends home page should be re-designed with a new look,something like the picture :



the background is good..there should be some JREFers <-- JREF members or any people who fit the page
 
I'd like to see a time limit on all polls of 3 weeks at the most. 5-year-old polls that get votes with no new posts are annoying. At least within the 3-week period people should still be discussing the topic. After that (well, I don't have any empirical evidence) is when the vote-and-runners come along, and it seems like many times they just register and vote and never actually post (although I can't verify that either, but there are people whose 1 post is in the poll thread). I think 3 weeks is enough time to get poll results. After that people can discuss whatever in the thread, but at least when it gets refreshed you'll know there's actually something worth looking at in there (i.e., a post, although I'll admit that they aren't all worth looking at).
 
It seems to make sense to me that if there is a china forum there should be a Korea forum.
 
Thanks for your suggestion.

Most threads relating to Korea touch upon the ties and the difficult historic relationship between Japan and Korea and are therefore posted to Japan-related subfora. If - in the future - the number of threads on Korean culture per se increase we could expand the China forum and include Korea as well.
 
Feedback needed: site revamp

Last revamp before we move to a new software. vB4 is at a dead end, but we need to find a way to convert the entire DB to UTF-8 first.
 
I'm not sure if this is the right thread to post this (if not, please move it to an appropriate one!).
I'm using Firefox (17.0.2) and when the browser is not full screen mode, the layout of this forum becomes messed, and I cannot pull down the "quick links" because when the cursor is placed there, "gallery" appears and "quick links" is overlaid. Is there any solution?
 
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