₦airaland Forum

The biggest problem is some.of the moderators. They are biased ... discriminate based on religious... political and tribal sentiments . Then the topics pushed to Front Page seem to be very immature. There is also the problem of imposing bans based on if the moderator disagrees. Many users are just bent on making any topic a tribal or religious matter ...these need to be banned to encourage healthy discussions and improve the quality of the forum. After all ...the forum is international. I'm not at all concerned with logo appearances and format changing for the sake of change ...after all ... how many years Mc Donald's has the same logo?

Boda Seun , na replies i dey read since you posted this , Nairalanders !! , na real Fuji house of commotion..
But please , I will suggest Message to be added , like to be able to send DMs to ourselves ( because me I get one or two fine babe I wan message here ) .. At the same time , if more add-ups can be made like TikTok . You know seeing followers , make post and followers could comment under and all of that .I know we have followers Icon but atleast , I would love to be having conversations with them like that of TikTok.. not compulsory videos ..you did a great job , Egbon . Keep it up..

To be honest, I ... will list mine:

- Work on the anti-spam bot. It's annoying as it bans arbitrarily.
- The UI feature is okay. Nothing needed to change.
- Tackle the mass liking of posts by APC data boys. One post, boom 100 likes within a few hours.
- The length limit of a long quoted post was brilliant. Well done!
- The suggestion of paying creators should be disregarded. You will have people start creating fake news and writing fake stories just so they earn money. This has created a fake news, aka Things That Never Happened syndrome on Twitter. Nairaland is meant to be largely anonymous, so I don't know why people want to earn money while being anonymous.

Lastly, if Mr A creates a thread that's well detailed, that thread should hit the front page rather than Mr B who does the same hours later, but his thread hits the front page simply because he's popular.

OverCalculating:
Moderators of the Health and Career section are not fully active. There are some important threads that they fail to move to front page even after calling their attention to it. Also, monetization of front page contents for the posters is not a bad idea because some people put extra efforts to prepare the contents that they post on each section. I think I have an idea to make the monetization process easier; let the criteria for being a moderator be based on the number of front page worthy post a poster has made. For example, you may say, if you have up to 20 posts that have made front page within a particular period, you would be automatically eligible to become a moderator. Then your moderators could go through some training to know more about the work culture and ethics of the forum. After that, you can put them on weekly or monthly payment with a target of post to make on a daily or periodic basis. This will make posting of contents look more original, professional, competitive and entertaining with different styles and enthusiasm because of the money involved.

Then as for the advertisement which is the soul of the forum. I suggest that there should be some sponsored adverts in form of thread and not just the usual advert banners on top of the thread section. When visiting each page, many people like me just focus on the thread section and read through the lines of each thread without looking up for advert. To be sincere with you, I cant remember the last time I have seen or glanced at any advert here on Nairaland but I am active on the pages everyday. Let the attention of advert be diverted to sponsored posts. The advertiser con choose to write the content and use some images (graphics) as illustration. Advertisers can also consult the moderators for creation of contents of sponsored post. This is another way for moderators to earn money. Let me stop here for now and allow other users to make suggestions. I hope these help.

@Seun This is the way forward. Carefully look into the implementation of this. I also suggest that you add a badge to the moniker/handle name of the moderators. Something like a verified tag for X-Users and Facebook users.

Seun:
Hello Nairalanders,

I'm Seun, the founder of Nairaland. Talk to me about what Nairaland is like for you. What's good and what's not so good right now.

I've been more focused on the backend and working on new features. It seems as if the moderation and other issues have fallen behind.

So, talk to me. What should we focus on in order to encourage you to start being more active on Nairaland?

PS: I have people dropping me messages presuming that Nairaland is over. What's that about?

Can you implement a LIKE and DISLIKE button such that the LIKE button pushes a comment up while DISLIKE button pushes it down, even if the commenter came first on the thread? That way users will be careful of what they say knowing that soon, their comment may not be found even on the second page of the thread.

OverCalculating:
Moderators of the Health and Career section are not fully active. There are some important threads that they fail to move to front page even after calling their attention to it. Also, monetization of front page contents for the posters is not a bad idea because some people put extra efforts to prepare the contents that they post on each section. I think I have an idea to make the monetization process easier; let the criteria for being a moderator be based on the number of front page worthy post a poster has made. For example, you may say, if you have up to 20 posts that have made front page within a particular period, you would be automatically eligible to become a moderator. Then your moderators could go through some training to know more about the work culture and ethics of the forum. After that, you can put them on weekly or monthly payment with a target of post to make on a daily or periodic basis. This will make posting of contents look more original, professional, competitive and entertaining with different styles and enthusiasm because of the money involved.

Then as for the advertisement which is the soul of the forum. I suggest that there should be some sponsored adverts in form of thread and not just the usual advert banners on top of the thread section. When visiting each page, many people like me just focus on the thread section and read through the lines of each thread without looking up for advert. To be sincere with you, I cant remember the last time I have seen or glanced at any advert here on Nairaland but I am active on the pages everyday. Let the attention of advert be diverted to sponsored posts. The advertiser con choose to write the content and use some images (graphics) as illustration. Advertisers can also consult the moderators for creation of contents of sponsored post. This is another way for moderators to earn money. Let me stop here for now and allow other users to make suggestions. I hope these help.

After taking my time to read all the suggestions and ideas from page one to this page, I think this is the best of them all. In fact, I think you should contact the poster in case there are more specific details to give on the ideas. I'm more attracted to this because it focuses on 2 major parts of this forum which are content creation/generation and revenue generation. Nairaland can't survive without these. The points raised would make Nairaland more interesting because there will be more professional posts, original contents, not just copy and paste and competitive because many people would want to do everything possible to earn the badge of a moderator.

Also, the revenue generation part is also fantastic but I will suggest that the banners should still be there while there are also sponsored posts from advertisers. However, there should be a form of regulation or control to the number of sponsored posts that would be posted in a day or else the front page would just be flooded with different sponsored posts...though it means more money to @seun but boring for the users. The style of writing of the sponsored post should be handled by creative moderators so as to ensure that it is not boring for the readers.

Morning Oga seun

Let me go straight to the point but first honestly nairaland through it thread had done Alot for Nigeria or let me say Africans because like we that joined long ago we pick life changing lessons and met life changing ppl but that being said below are what I think you needed to note:

1. Interface: it keeps the page refreshing at all time but note the straight away nature of this platform make it more user friendly and I think it should maintain that. App this days had been more of media but please let us still maintain this balance in here

2. Religion: unlike the past this was not really an issue in Nigeria as a whole but lately religion intolerance is now the order of the day, Nairaland ban was in full effect and prompt in the past but now it's weak in my view

3. Politics: I can say the same thing with religion on this but it seems more immaturity is now in the house. We all will never have the same ideology but yet respect each other view but not again in here

4. Tribe: I cannot Echo this enough. This is a menace on this platform now. We now call each other names, curse at will and even threaten forgetting the meaningful part to life.

5. Encouragement: Give back to the people. It will go a long way in view of latest reality. It mustn't be raw fund, u can change narrative with data/airtime/eatry tickets or cinema tickets and the likes it goes a looooooong way

6. The OGs: just like 2go that year let the OGs be visible so as to be respected for the time spent here.

7. Upgrade and App: I think have only notice an upgrade once or twice in here. Please give us a face lift and possibly a go to App with better fintuned functionalities

8. Minors: Many young ones are here now please let your platform be sane enough for everyone.

9. Information: lately many information here are becoming outdated and sometimes fake. B4 now no matter where I see infomation my confirmation ground was always here but now is not the case. Help bring back the good old days

Education and Enlightenment: This is the SOUL of this forum but it's losing in present day

NOTE:
I can go on and on but the fact still remain this forum was a blessing, please help us keep it that way. Help sanitise the virus now eating deep into the system of this once great platform. Engagement had reduced drastically, people don't see the need to hear their opinion either good, important or helpful just because of responses.

Let me stop cos many have said Alot. Thank you

OverCalculating:
Moderators of the Health and Career section are not fully active. There are some important threads that they fail to move to front page even after calling their attention to it. Also, monetization of front page contents for the posters is not a bad idea because some people put extra efforts to prepare the contents that they post on each section. I think I have an idea to make the monetization process easier; let the criteria for being a moderator be based on the number of front page worthy post a poster has made. For example, you may say, if you have up to 20 posts that have made front page within a particular period, you would be automatically eligible to become a moderator. Then your moderators could go through some training to know more about the work culture and ethics of the forum. After that, you can put them on weekly or monthly payment with a target of post to make on a daily or periodic basis. This will make posting of contents look more original, professional, competitive and entertaining with different styles and enthusiasm because of the money involved.

Then as for the advertisement which is the soul of the forum. I suggest that there should be some sponsored adverts in form of thread and not just the usual advert banners on top of the thread section. When visiting each page, many people like me just focus on the thread section and read through the lines of each thread without looking up for advert. To be sincere with you, I cant remember the last time I have seen or glanced at any advert here on Nairaland but I am active on the pages everyday. Let the attention of advert be diverted to sponsored posts. The advertiser con choose to write the content and use some images (graphics) as illustration. Advertisers can also consult the moderators for creation of contents of sponsored post. This is another way for moderators to earn money. Let me stop here for now and allow other users to make suggestions. I hope these help.

I have been an active member since 2013...This is good👍. Let the likes push the thread to front page and not just human efforts. Moderators decision to select front page posts may be biased. However, the moderators can only regulate the contents that are being pushed to ensure that they are not offensive or against the business ethics of Niraland but they shouldn't decide which post should be on the front page. This system is democratic. People's reaction and engagement should be the basis and not just a personal decision. Sponsored posts are fine as long as they are regulated. I see Niraland making a lot of money from this, especially during this political campaign period.

OverCalculating:
Moderators of the Health and Career section are not fully active. There are some important threads that they fail to move to front page even after calling their attention to it. Also, monetization of front page contents for the posters is not a bad idea because some people put extra efforts to prepare the contents that they post on each section. I think I have an idea to make the monetization process easier; let the criteria for being a moderator be based on the number of front page worthy post a poster has made. For example, you may say, if you have up to 20 posts that have made front page within a particular period, you would be automatically eligible to become a moderator. Then your moderators could go through some training to know more about the work culture and ethics of the forum. After that, you can put them on weekly or monthly payment with a target of post to make on a daily or periodic basis. This will make posting of contents look more original, professional, competitive and entertaining with different styles and enthusiasm because of the money involved.

Then as for the advertisement which is the soul of the forum. I suggest that there should be some sponsored adverts in form of thread and not just the usual advert banners on top of the thread section. When visiting each page, many people like me just focus on the thread section and read through the lines of each thread without looking up for advert. To be sincere with you, I cant remember the last time I have seen or glanced at any advert here on Nairaland but I am active on the pages everyday. Let the attention of advert be diverted to sponsored posts. The advertiser con choose to write the content and use some images (graphics) as illustration. Advertisers can also consult the moderators for creation of contents of sponsored post. This is another way for moderators to earn money. Let me stop here for now and allow other users to make suggestions. I hope these help.

Brilliant idea.

Why is the site always promoting noisemakers like Nyesom Wike and Reno Omokri?

The only thing is see is that ... everyone has moved on to twitter. I didn’t have any choice than to go back to using my twitter. One can no longer get answers to questions easily on this site.

OverCalculating:
Moderators of the Health and Career section are not fully active. There are some important threads that they fail to move to front page even after calling their attention to it. Also, monetization of front page contents for the posters is not a bad idea because some people put extra efforts to prepare the contents that they post on each section. I think I have an idea to make the monetization process easier; let the criteria for being a moderator be based on the number of front page worthy post a poster has made. For example, you may say, if you have up to 20 posts that have made front page within a particular period, you would be automatically eligible to become a moderator. Then your moderators could go through some training to know more about the work culture and ethics of the forum. After that, you can put them on weekly or monthly payment with a target of post to make on a daily or periodic basis. This will make posting of contents look more original, professional, competitive and entertaining with different styles and enthusiasm because of the money involved.

Then as for the advertisement which is the soul of the forum. I suggest that there should be some sponsored adverts in form of thread and not just the usual advert banners on top of the thread section. When visiting each page, many people like me just focus on the thread section and read through the lines of each thread without looking up for advert. To be sincere with you, I cant remember the last time I have seen or glanced at any advert here on Nairaland but I am active on the pages everyday. Let the attention of advert be diverted to sponsored posts. The advertiser con choose to write the content and use some images (graphics) as illustration. Advertisers can also consult the moderators for creation of contents of sponsored post. This is another way for moderators to earn money. Let me stop here for now and allow other users to make suggestions. I hope these help.

I don't even notice that there are adverts on Niraland. I had to look up to check after reading this post. You need to find a creative way to put the advert into people's face other than the usual way. A CREATIVELY managed sponsored targeted post will do the magic. Well done for creating the opportunity for us to express our mind.

I stopped using Nairaland because most of the times I contributed, I was banned. Imagine seeing an interesting topic, then you try to contribute, yet banned twice in one day, even when I didn't use offensive language.

Nairaland is more of an interactive forum, with less messaging function and video function, compared to other apps, so why then do we get banned when we try to contribute?

Most of us have moved to other social media and we are not experiencing banning or problems in other apps. I only pop in here once in a blue moon because I can't bring myself to click the deactivation button, at least not for now.

Mattswaggz:
That your "auto ban bot" or what is it self that bans for no reason should be either re programmed or removed......a lot of people get banned for making harmless comments here and that makes it discouraging for them to keep on using Nairaland.... that's one of the problems.

he's not ready to work on it and this discourages most people from commenting

OverCalculating:
Moderators of the Health and Career section are not fully active. There are some important threads that they fail to move to front page even after calling their attention to it. Also, monetization of front page contents for the posters is not a bad idea because some people put extra efforts to prepare the contents that they post on each section. I think I have an idea to make the monetization process easier; let the criteria for being a moderator be based on the number of front page worthy post a poster has made. For example, you may say, if you have up to 20 posts that have made front page within a particular period, you would be automatically eligible to become a moderator. Then your moderators could go through some training to know more about the work culture and ethics of the forum. After that, you can put them on weekly or monthly payment with a target of post to make on a daily or periodic basis. This will make posting of contents look more original, professional, competitive and entertaining with different styles and enthusiasm because of the money involved.

Then as for the advertisement which is the soul of the forum. I suggest that there should be some sponsored adverts in form of thread and not just the usual advert banners on top of the thread section. When visiting each page, many people like me just focus on the thread section and read through the lines of each thread without looking up for advert. To be sincere with you, I cant remember the last time I have seen or glanced at any advert here on Nairaland but I am active on the pages everyday. Let the attention of advert be diverted to sponsored posts. The advertiser con choose to write the content and use some images (graphics) as illustration. Advertisers can also consult the moderators for creation of contents of sponsored post. This is another way for moderators to earn money. Let me stop here for now and allow other users to make suggestions. I hope these help.

You are making a lot of money from this platform, let people also share the goodies with you, not just as your employee on your payroll but as independent contributors. This is why Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and the rest of them will never ever lack contents. The developer gets the bulk of the revenue from advertisers while the contributors share from the bulk to maintain the system and keep it sustainable. Can you just make this platform the first indigenous platform to get monetized like Facebook, YouTube, etc. If you can make this possible, you will take charge. Try it and thank me later.

Seun an app with all the necessary buttons or icons would be awesome just like X. I sometimes struggle to use NAIRALAND because it is a site. Not some quick go to app

Seun:
I've been more focused on the backend and working on new features.

It seems as if the moderation and other issues have fallen behind.

I hope that this focus on the backend will secure the site against hackers who want to destroy it like they did in 2014 after PDP’s Fayose won against APC’s Fayemi.

You have mentioned the issue that needs fixing- moderating content, comments and contributions posted to avoid ridicule, like the one being experienced on the ADC registration portal.

Change your moderators. You will get the quality comments and exchange of ideas we had here around 2006-10 era if you have mature people moderating the forum. I know the front page war was lost a long time ago but I still believe the quality of moderators can influence the way people post here but if they continue to reward their friends, their political parties and bloggers, forget it. I'd rather go to Linda Ikeji for that.

The moderators are not fair and people can see it. I just called this one out yesterday

SixSeven:

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I started this thread but as usual it was not pushed to the front page. I pray this form of selective and cognitive bias continues while a better competitor to this platform emerged!

I see the mod and I wonder who are the people Seun is working with. They don't have the interest of the forum as far as I am concerned. No fine, independent hands anymore. You can smell compromise and bias. I went through all the FP, there's no need for me to comment sef. Users have already written what I need to write, shame no catch them again, it's almost like this government, they don't even care anymore

Two days ago, they hid my comment using the bot apparently because they didn't want my comment featured on FP. I just see these things and smh

Many people have told Seun before, he's not just ready. There are more quality conversations that could have been discussed here but for poor moderation and non-independent workers.

@Seun

Change your moderators. They are clearly unrefined and compromised. A lot has been said but personally what concerns me the most is that your moderators are profiting off the site by pushing tribalistic, anti opposition topics to the front page. It is appalling. Been here since 2009 I believe. This is my second handle. I won't recommend this site to anyone. At this point, it is dangerous and an effective weapon used to destroy the values and ideologies of the young minds amongst us.

Change your moderators.

jericco1:
The site has been the same since I started using it in 2010

Google welcome page has been essentially the same since it started several years ago. Simple and easy to download for low quality internet connection.

Nairaland should be that way too- easy to use for low internet access people.

@seun

The agricultural sector is dead, the moderator of that section are not active some can stay a month or two before coming back here, why the other moderator has not be online since 2024.

We need people who visit this site daily to be admins/ moderators.

I love the agriculture niche and would love to promote agriculture here on nairaland

Seun:
Hello Nairalanders,

I'm Seun, the founder of Nairaland. Talk to me about what Nairaland is like for you. What's good and what's not so good right now.

I've been more focused on the backend and working on new features. It seems as if the moderation and other issues have fallen behind.

So, talk to me. What should we focus on in order to encourage you to start being more active on Nairaland?

PS: I have people dropping me messages presuming that Nairaland is over. What's that about?

Please bring back some of your good past Mods.

Where is Nwamaikpe and Lalaclasticlala?
Some of us have been here since 2007 but hardly comment. I do however enjoy reading other people's comments though. There are so many smart and intelligent contributors here.

Lastly, during the 2023 elections, the site became very toxic, partisan and almost tribalised.

ManOfSon:
Why is the site always promoting noisemakers like Nyesom Wike and Reno Omokri?

This. Another example of the moderators being clearly compromised. I wish Seun will start by changing the front page moderator(s).

Seun:
Hello Nairalanders,

I'm Seun, the founder of Nairaland. Talk to me about what Nairaland is like for you. What's good and what's not so good right now.

I've been more focused on the backend and working on new features. It seems as if the moderation and other issues have fallen behind.

So, talk to me. What should we focus on in order to encourage you to start being more active on Nairaland?

PS: I have people dropping me messages presuming that Nairaland is over. What's that about?

Allow people to buy gift and send gift to creators which can be converted to money as well.

UnlimitedNG:
I don't even notice that there are adverts on Niraland. I had to look up to check after reading this post. You need to find a creative way to put the advert into people's face other than the usual way. A CREATIVELY managed sponsored targeted post will do the magic. Well done for creating the opportunity for us to express our mind.

Most of the adverts are raunchy ads, porñ sites and hook up. Imagine hook up ads in politics. I am sure a lot of young people have been misled with the ads.

Please do not monetize the site. It will become a nuisance. There can be a way for people to make money but do not make money an incentive. Don't copy the western capitalists.

Yarimo and madridguy are both nuisance!

Make it possible for authors to delete unwanted comments and original threads.

Seun:
Hello Nairalanders,

I'm Seun, the founder of Nairaland. Talk to me about what Nairaland is like for you. What's good and what's not so good right now.

I've been more focused on the backend and working on new features. It seems as if the moderation and other issues have fallen behind.

So, talk to me. What should we focus on in order to encourage you to start being more active on Nairaland?

PS: I have people dropping me messages presuming that Nairaland is over. What's that about?

ceejay80s:
Just saw a thief walking on my fence now from my bedroom window ,
Thank God I was awake on nairaland

Are you safe