Manon

This website is great but it has many problems, some of which are just illogical to exist. If we want to improve this website and make it work for the benefit of English teaching and teachers then we should cooperate and follow accurate and logical methods and solutions rather than stick to our way of thinking and likes just because they are our way of thinking and likes and they make us feel better inside.

The case I presented in my previous thread is specific since I myself admitted that contributing in this website shouldn �t be limited to uploading wss only and I also said that there are many members with 0 points or more who could be active on the forum, which means that they are cooperating with the others for the benefit of the teachers and the website alike, but there are many others who are total passive and maybe active just in downloading the members � wss, which is a clear sign of opportunism; and there is a large number of users with 0 points (or more) who created their accounts here once and stopped coming here forever. Certainly those people are taking space in the website, creating a problem at the technical level.  So how would you deal with this problem if you don �t implement a relevant rule?

I introduced the case and made my suggestion which is to set a minimum number of uploads to 1, 2 or 3 wss let �s say a YEAR Or even a minimum number of forum contributions (as agreed) so as to know who is "active" and who is just a dead body in this website (I mainly refer to the last category of ppl). And I don �t think that setting a minimum number of uploads or forum contributions is an act of forcing the users to move since the number is very low and anyone cis able to do it no matter how busy or sick he/she is. In fact, that �s not forcing, rather it �s testing/checking. We need to get rid of the abandoned accounts and the opportunists too. We need that space which is occupied by the empty passive accounts and also we need people who would give and take as much as they can. Just show that you can also give be it a ws, a piece of advice, an idea, a word or whatever may be useful to the teachers here. 

After making my suggestion, I asked everybody for their views and I told those who would disagree about the idea to help us with a better suggestion to overcome that problem or at least to be logical and accurate in their answers since it �s impossible that everybody agrees with whatever you say. I was, however, astonished to receive some comments void of any accuracy or logical thinking. If you read their comments you would realize that some disagreed just for the sake of disagreement (and they are known of that), while others just said no without trying to give sound arguments and support their views with better suggestions if they have any. To my mind, Only children may say �no � without even trying to convince you; otherwise there should be a psychological problem related to selfishness!

By saying all that I don �t mean to hurt anybody bcz I �m not here to quarrel with anyone and bcz there is no benefit at all from doing so even if some users, as may be seen on the thread, have the habit of being rude in their comments and I wonder how come they are teachers!! Manon is however an exception. She is a nice, polite member and this is clear in most of her comments on the website. I �m saying this in public bcz she deserves to be respected.

So plz I hope that nobody is hurt. I just would like to cooperate in the improvement of this website and that �s why I �m making such a suggestion which would need to be voted by the majority of people here, then either we take it if we see that it is useful or we forget about it and wait for someone else to make a better suggestion. This is if we want to make this website a better place, rather than stick to our own views only because that makes us feel better!

Thank you

Abdelhadi