shagarri:

Mr Maclatunji, it's not your benchmarks that placed Nairaland tops, but the need for people to connect with each other.

Nairaland serves that need best and that's it's key selling points. Nigerians will always visit this site till there is an alternative.

Mods on the other hand are gatekeepers selected from users. Your job is to maintain rules and keep the peace, not becoming a major cause of conflict.

If you tell me "this is a private site, we do what we want", then that's fine. However if you claim to be user centric then you (as a mod), should listen to the myriad of people complaining about you and sexkillz and learn to be more diplomatic and courteous.

It's the socially responsible thing to do.

NB
if Nairaland is a microcosm of Nigeria, then don't expect every one to be a "Soyinka". Some will be dropouts and some almajiris even some outright crazy ones. It doesn't stop them from having a voice.

hagma37@yahoo.com:
Abeg Seun we need apps for this forum. Get proffesionals to develop NL apps for you i.e NL blackberryapps,NL android apps,NL all these device apps.

niceprof: \

Linda ikeji and irokotv are owned by igbos,so they are in business to make money,sometimes i think seun is more of a nice guy and the way he is going he might one day put up nairaland for sale.

shagarri:

Mr Maclatunji, it's not your benchmarks that placed Nairaland tops, but the need for people to connect with each other.

Nairaland serves that need best and that's it's key selling points. Nigerians will always visit this site till there is an alternative.

Mods on the other hand are gatekeepers selected from users. Your job is to maintain rules and keep the peace, not becoming a major cause of conflict.

If you tell me "this is a private site, we do what we want", then that's fine. However if you claim to be user centric then you (as a mod), should listen to the myriad of people complaining about you and sexkillz and learn to be more diplomatic and courteous.

It's the socially responsible thing to do.

NB
if Nairaland is a microcosm of Nigeria, then don't expect every one to be a "Soyinka". Some will be dropouts and some almajiris even some outright crazy ones. It doesn't stop them from having a voice.

maclatunji:

The benchmarks or more appropriately metrics tell us how you are interacting. I do my own personal research on Nairaland and other websites and I know that Nairaland is very strong in terms of user engagement, my bans or that of any other moderator won't change that. Bans are necessary tools to ensure order and serve as deterrents to obstinate rule breakers.

If you behave, we will have few or no problems at all.

BlackPikiN: Honestly Seun is not doing well.

Linda Ikeji and IrokoTV of yesterday are making serious money.

Thank God say Seun eyes open small.
There are still enough ways to make money on NL but Seun too dey fear to make bold/radical changes.
Seun should wake up!

Blueboy0402: Where is Seun

cousjwhite: I did develop a app for Nairaland but the little problem i had with my network administrators is dat Nairaland has no support website or portal. Honestly if seun will look at it from my angle, i'm willing to launch and give-out this app for free for the first 1month of release B4 i stat making my cash or he pays-me-off. @seun.... Look-@-it man. U hav nothin to loose. I already did one for Vanguard Newspapers and its generating huge traffic and visitors to the site. Trust me, u need just that. My name is Cousin Joshua and i am a Content Developer. I develope apps for Nokia (symbian, Java) Android, IOS, and blackberry sevices. You can fins me on facebook at www.facebook.com/cousjwhite. On twitter @cousjwhite. On 2go with username cousjwhite and on Nokia Store as Cousin Joshua. I'll be posting the link to download the Vanguard mobile App i created for them later on. So look farward to downloading and testing for urself. Bye for now.

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