First of all i appreciate your effort (the Admin staffs and the mods) for giving fellow manipuris a forum where we can share and discuss things relevant to Manipur.

No offence meant, but the forum is as good as dead, need to bring lives in them, need to engage more members, fail to see any quality and productive discussion.

“The Rules and Guidelines” can outrightly pissed off (excuse me) many visitors including civilized ones, for some of the words there are quite heavy.

I also failed to see any replies to the various queries that the members have posted, which is very unfortunate.

Hoping to see MF in good shape

Regards
Apang

Apang !

You are 100% right! The forum is as good as dead… The site was lying like this for years without any maintenance and promotion!

Just few days back ,we just started working on the site and very soon you will see the changes!

All we need is your support ! Take part in the forum ,Post quality and productive discussion. and please spread the news! Soon we will be adding Invitation system also!

About the rules and guidelines , your feedback/suggestions are always welcome! And we will try our best to change it !

Regarding ,replies to the various queries , we will be replying to every queries … @ the moment…we are a bit busy setting up the site!

@ Mod

It would be nice if you add some alert which will be readily noticeable once we log in, other the one with e-mail notification you have right now.
That way, it would be easier to follow a discussion. It will also help when the volume of discussion grow.

@ Mod/admin

I can see a lot of members (no offence meant to them) resorted to copy pasting of materials posted in other sites. This might be of your concern, a little editing would help I guess.

Please see that posts (if it is a web material) by the com mentors have a proper source or a link is quoted, which will help in getting additional information.

Well saying Apang,

However, I am strictly against your opinion!!!

I agree that almost all the opinions are Internet materials taken from other sources…

These are just the initial points where we can start our discussion…

Only the starting contents will be copied from other sites, yet you will never find the remaining contents and replies by our members being copied from other sites since these replies and comments are genuine and their own thoughts!

If the initial contents are not taken from other sources, then we have to bring our personal topics in public discussions which are not allowed in here!

On the other hand, if you are to edit the contents taken from other sites before posting in the Manipur Forum, there is no guarantee that you will edit the contents correctly. Humans are born to make mistakes, so if by chance you made any error in the contents while editing, then only you are to be blamed, and no one else since there will be big differences in the contents of the source contents and the one edited by you.

Here, we do post articles and hot topics taken from other sources which might bring an attention to our fellow Manipuris. We never choose any topic which hardly related with Manipur!!!

I am neither the Admin nor the Mod, however as far as my opinion is concerned I just thought like that!
Hope this might clear up your mind!

@TomBa
Glad that you took the pain to differ. I appreciate that.
I cannot and will not try to clear your mind or anyone else, but would like to take this opportunity to just give a hint of the gravity of the situation.
Now let’s take an example; somebody’s posting recipes for some miraculous drink to boost memories/to cure diseases without quoting the source or without a link, and given the fact that the internet is full of spams now, I think it would not be wise to drink/take that stuff without validating/assuring that the information are indeed genuine and correct. So a link or source will do harm and I think that’s why the Admin have given the option to “insert a link” in the top panel of the type comment/post box, if you notice. To add, there is something called a copyright, wherein a material in one web page cannot be posted, shared and published in other website. It might attract legal actions.
So (this is my own humble opinion) posting material from other site is good as long as it is informative provided one has given a proper link with due courtesy and a bit of editing (herein editing does not necessarily mean that one has to go through all the text and rewrite in his own words , at most you can select some important informative part or may be provided the first para as an excerpts and give the link for additional info, Eg: more, click here ans so on)

Well Well, I agree with Apang!!! Got any reply Mr.Tomba?

Well Apang & DiPu,

Just one line, “I was never against inclusion of source in the contents, and I never mentioned anything regarding that in my previous post!!!!”

All i said was about the internet contents and copy paste this and that…

I know that there might be legal actions but we are in open discussion and not stealing any private property!!! If the stuffs are private then why would the author post it in their site. If something is posted online, that stuff is not private at all and we are free to discuss at our will…

If we are posting the contents from other sites, it is quite necessary to give the link where it comes from to validate the informations. Yupe that’s true!!! By this method, that site will have more backlinks generated by means of open discussion in the forum which is beneficial to the source sites!!! Why would they take actions against this???

Legal actions may arise only when we copy and paste some others article in our personal site but not in the forum!!! And in the forum rules and guidelines, i found nothing regarding this – “we should not post articles from other sites!!!”

@ Mod

I think you guys are not maintaning the site properly. You might be busy in your other personal life.

But do spare some time to maintain the site. I would like to highlight few points.

The statistics shown at the bottom is at all time WRONG I guess, It shows abnormally high no. of users.

The last reply thread also shows an all time wrong info: most of the time, it shows “just now” for reply as long as a month back. Those are misleading.

And above that, the site take abnormal time to open any page. The pageload is too long.

you may do the needful.