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Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 6:10pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
goofyone: Hi Forte! Oops, perchance, you haven't seen the counter thread? I mean there's been scores of topics created on this issue of Nairaland not living up to it's potential etc. imo I believe the admin is not daft. I believe he knows what he needs to do overnight to increase the flow of traffic to this website. But then. When I think of it, he prolly has his reasons. He might not be interested in the money as much as he is interested in the quality of people who visit the the site, more like adding more value (quality), instead of people (quantity). I think he considers NL a baby or a child of sorts, that he wants to slowly and tenderly nurture. Besides, who knows! He just might be making as much or more even. Someone compared Linda to Mark Zuckerberg and compared Him to Sergei (hope I spelt that right) and Larry. We know Google makes more money, but FB is always on the news, especially in social circles. Besides, that topic on Linda being richer than him hit FP. People were lamenting and blaming the owner for allowing his mods allow such remain on FP I mean! its bad market naw. But when I think of it, I find that he's actually trying to send a message to the world which could be either of: She's richer, so? or I don't blame you guys, it's because I don't live my life on the front page of dailies and blogs, how could she possibly be richer than me? That said It is what it is. Did I just write all that, for someone who doesn't even know I exist? Chi-zos!!!! smh - MizMyColi: Making excuses for people, since time immemorial |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 6:45pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
MizMyColi: Hehe..Mizmycoli, you are just one in a million! But then, if he was so rich, don't you think he would be so generous to pay his moderators? I think I read somewhere they all work for him for free. Even Reddit, which is just as much a forum as Nairaland, pays its moderators. |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 6:57pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
goofyone: Thanks jorey! I get tired of myself now and then @the way I defend people, even when they don't know me and vice versa. Blame on this natural PR skill Errr Arh Arhmm *clears throat* *coughs* Iyen gidi gan I'm sure he has his reasons too. Just not sure how concrete that might be. |
Re: The Forte by chibwike(m): 7:02pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
i wud spend my evening here, Mizmycoli hope am welcomed |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 7:12pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
MizMyColi: And perhaps I should add that these moderators do a job that is not incomparable to a bank job or an IT job in a ICT firm or any other regular job you can think about. |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 7:25pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
chibwike: i wud spend my evening here, Mizmycoli hope am welcomed Please feel free. You are highly welcome. So, what d'ya gat to chip in @CurrentTopic as raised by goofyone @Xcapist, you're sighted Goodevening. |
Re: The Forte by chibwike(m): 7:28pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
wats d topic about |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 7:31pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
goofyone: Well, in that case. Paying a stipend shouldn't be a bad idea, I think . Besides, there's got to be something in it for them, other than financial gain, more like a kick, y'know There has to be perks attached to being a mod on NL! |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 7:32pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Sergey Brin. @Miz |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 7:34pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
chibwike: wats d topic about Topic Nairaland vs LIB: The way forward. Main Protagonists: Linda Ikeji and HIM you could check page7 for previous contributions. |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 7:36pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Xcapist: Sergey Brin. @MizOh! Thanks for that. |
Re: The Forte by chibwike(m): 10:12pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Have tried visiting dat Linda's blog..nothing interests me there..Nairaland is a home,a comfort zone, infact Seun did a great job creating the forum..Nairaland all d way abeg 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 10:23pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Seconded ^^^ |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 10:42pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
goofyone: It's always nice to meet a kindred spirit goof. One of the reasons I love meeting awesome weird people like you is because there's always one thing or the other to learn from them by merely striking a convo. They have so much awesomeness pent up in them that any narrow crevice (conversation) would make awesomeness erupt like a volcano. And drab people like me get to have awesomeness rubbed off on us. Is that Hamilton guy biracial? Is it just me or does he resemble Theo Walcott? I don't follow any single sport in particular. I'm such a terrible fan :-/ Can you believe I've never watched a full 90 minutes soccer game that didn't have the Super Eagle(t)s in it? *face palm* I rather be the man in the arena kicking the ball than a spectator watching on screen and cussing. I was told that some fathers won't give their daughters' hand in marriage to any non sport fan because they're suspicious of the guy's manliness, like what sort of real man doesn’t like sport?! lol. Ridiculous, huh? I just hope my prospective father-in-law will not be in that category. Once, my friend dragged me to a viewing centre to break the jinx only for the projector to develop a fault some minutes in to the game and a big fight broke out, apparently I jinxed the whole place :-/ Anyway, I've tried karate and I like it. I think it's going to be a lifelong sport for me. Other sports I think I may like include boxing and rugby. I think it's obvious that any sport that has even a little shove and punches flying around would grab my attention. Video games, especially RTS games have been shown to improve a variety of "critical cognitive skills", most prominently working memory and task-switching ability. You know how it is when you finish some games, you have to pat yourself on the back and say "well done jare, you've just earned bragging rights". And you are absolutely right about Vice City, I don't think I've ever been as obsessed about any other game like Vice City and that was like 7, 8 years back (Imagine! God, how time flies). “Yo Tommy, I have a job for you!”, “It's time for the Lance Vance Dance!”, “You got big cojones amigo” Remember that mission where you have to fly a remote controlled toy helicopter from a van to drop explosives in a construction site while some idiyats keep shooting the heli? Insane! I must have done that thing over 20-30 times before I finally succeeded. Then I learned the cheats, pull all the cops; SWAT, black suits and helicopter included at 5 stars heat, type BIG BANG and watch the fireworks And then there's CoD and Hitman and...let me just keep quiet before the non gamers would tell me to shut up and get a life lol We, gamers, decided to live multiple lives I use to be afraid of going to the library to study for a big test or exam. I just can't fight the tempation - the old dusty books of the psychology and literature section held me spellbound, calling me by name, beckoning me from their cobweb ridden selves to come and open them and run my fingers through their touch esurient pages, relishing their content. How could I say no? My study buddies just couldn't understand my love affair with the ancient books that defied the fear of test and exam, quite frankly neither did I. About my moniker, Xcapist is Escapist [is'key-pist]: (noun) A person who; to avoid, deny, forget about reality, escapes into a world of fantasy. It's for the little daydreamer in me who, as a coping mechanism for sailing through a peculiar toddlerhood, developed such elaborate imaginative worlds. And when, I was encountering some serious faith related issues awhile back, I found myself looking for that little kid and his perfect little world. And when NL requested for a username I just typed that...and regretted afterwards because it sounds like Ex-Rap!st. lol |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 10:44pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
What do we do in this space? Drop epistles? |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 10:49pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
AirborneLacer: What do we do in this space? Abeg no mind us jare. Just scroll pass. MizMyColi, hope we have your permission? |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 10:57pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Xcapist: No qualms mate. Seeing you're a footie fan, I was going to invite you over for us to see a game this weekend. But I'm just scared, I'm scared your presence might set the pub's long serving decoder ablaze |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 11:01pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
AirborneLacer: Lwkmd! Abi? |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 11:07pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Xcapist: Like totally, yeah! I enjoy watching you guys converse |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 11:12pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Xcapist: Not really my assertion. Just using your confession against you You play football? 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 11:22pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
AirborneLacer: Touché. Use to, not anymore. 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 11:34pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
Xcapist: Who didn't? Even the folks who were heavenly horrendous at kicking the round leather game back then would today present a claim like this ''I used to be better than Messi - Education is the way Jare'' Well, I'm still very much active in the game - not a pro though. My favourite activity has got to be manning the centre-back position Why do I keep having this feelings that you were a goalie? 2 Likes |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 11:45pm On Sep 19, 2014 |
AirborneLacer: Lol. Believe me when I tell that I was better than Messi. *laughs at own joke* Coincidentally, I also played central defence 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 12:06am On Sep 20, 2014 |
Xcapist: Hehe I dread pacey forwards and the buffy ones too - doesn't necessarily mean I occassionally get run ragged by them I'm 2inches shy of 6ft, so I'm not really the best in aerial duels but I try to give my best. No def has got the kinda foot-work I possess, used to be a winger actually untill I got shoe-horned into the back-line. I'm also great with tackles and interceptions Oya analyse your flaws & strengths. 2 Likes |
Re: The Forte by DAvIt0(m): 12:27am On Sep 20, 2014 |
The Forte! The Forte!! The Forte!!! 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by DAvIt0(m): 12:34am On Sep 20, 2014 |
AirborneLacer: All this ticker you and Mr. xcapist are ranting bout --> "Story for the gods" It's not you guys turf anymore... So Keep Calm and Watch Messi/Suarez/Ronaldo and Learn, or try rekindling the spirit. 2 Likes |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 12:39am On Sep 20, 2014 |
DAvIt0: Pfft! Don't mistake me for a pot-bellied 'once-upon-a-time' soccer player who's living in past glories I'm still very young to delve into football and make the best outta it If I wish. I settled for something else - Priorities change. 2 Likes |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 1:04am On Sep 20, 2014 |
MizMyColi: I don't know much about this Seun guy other than he created NL, has a baby face and...that's all I guess, neither have I been on Nairaland long enough to understand it's intricate culture and history (at least, that's how I see it), and I have not seen the said counter thread, so anything I say would be, at best, speculative but I'll still drop my twopence sha. If there's a striking difference between the earnings of Seun and Linda, I'd attribute it to the revenue generation model each opted for. It all boils down to the tiny detail of how each single kobo is made. Mind you, traffic doesn't necessarily equal money. Linda's blog is powered by Google's technology and she most probably uses Google AdSense to get paid, in other words Google pays her to place other people's ads on her blog (these other people, like Konga, dealdey, Kaymu etc pay Google in turn). Seun on the other hand, collects money from NL users who want to place adverts in a more direct manner. Now tell me how many NL users place adverts? Have you ever placed an ad? Neither have I. And while Mr. Seun might have to pay running costs, servers, maintenance, time, etc, all Linda has to do is keep gossiping. I feel Seun has grown complacent, I mean look at the interface for Christ sake. It was the only reason I didn't join NL years earlier. There are better forum software programs with glazing graphics facade and modern features instead of this basic HTML/CSS design that looks like something that was created just for fun without any hope that it'll blow one day, missing many features that you'd expect a modern web app to have like callbacks to allow you to submit data or do actions without reloading the entire page. Well, it has blown and it still looks like a pet project. I know that may sound trivial since we still have basic functionalities but we have to remember that "the way you look is how you'll be addressed". The world has moved on and NL, Nigeria's most visited website once upon a time, is lagging behind. These may all be because he's being mightily frugal with the server resources but how many times have I been delayed when I want to make a post because "our servers are busy" and asked to wait for minutes? Has it happened to you too? What is he being frugal for if he doesn't even pay the very people that uphold order on his forum? If NL isn't profitable then he should consider allowing investors in, brainstorm and come up with more creative ways to effectively convert the site's popularity in to revenue and he should recruit a small army of young and smart Nigerian techheads to reinvent the site's sight and feel and subsequent maintenance and full time mods to enforce order... or do you think Facebook, Google and Apple would be where they are today if they had remained a one man show (two men in the two latter instances). If I owned NL I for don sellam start to dey build another better more challenging thing from the scratch. I'll apply all the lessons learned from this one so that next thing will be even more outstanding. 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 1:09am On Sep 20, 2014 |
AirborneLacer: Hahaha! I no fi shout! I believe you sha. Strengths: Strong and fast. Weakness: Height. But it's not like it's basket ball, sooooo 1 Like |
Re: The Forte by beejaymoore(m): 1:13am On Sep 20, 2014 |
awake ? |
Re: The Forte by MizMyColi(f): 6:56am On Sep 20, 2014 |
LoL Reading your posts make me laugh. Good Morning all, Happy weekend @Xcapist, I couldn't fault zilch in your post, save for the interface part. I think it's MB friendly, but then, there's room for improvement. @DavIto Welcome. You should come around more oft. @Goofyone Ich Wunsche @AirborneLacer So good to finally have you here. Welcome. @Chibwike you went AWOL @ beejaymoore We're awake now |
Re: The Forte by Nobody: 9:52am On Sep 20, 2014 |
MizMyColi:True. I vote for MB friendly over aesthetics. I think the guy is trying o. Thank god for NL, facilitating interesting conversations since 2005 1 Like |
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