The total number of comments posted on The Online Citizen since we went online in December 2006 has breached the 100,000 mark. Today, 23 September 2009, 9am, the number of comments on TOC currently stands at 100,026. (These do not include spam comments.)
This averages out to almost 100 comments each day in the last 34 months.
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Please do continue to express yourself here.
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#40
“In order to materialise my idea in TOC, I think civil servants, pro-government people, those government planners who are really passionate about their jobs (there should be at least some, though not many i think) should make it a point to contribute to TOC, so that we can all learn their problems and why they do certain things, we can have a lively debate.”
There’s still this fear in some people’s mind that withholds them from participating online forum like such, I think more so for civil servants, pro-government people, and those government planners.
Perhaps this is one of the key contributions of the MIW govt, their legacy to this country for 44 years of rule, a self-destructing act that will eventually bring this country called Singapore out of the world stage, though not over night but surely as days go by just as history has witnessed the rise and fall of Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and USSR.
Such stiffening of the people’s expression results in concentrating and heavy dependence on the elite group for charting the future of this country, instead of drawing on collective wisdom and absorbing all useful ideas from the masses for ideas generation that can help the country to scale greater height.
I wish this day will come for Singapore that Singapore will rise from height to height, and grow strength to strength.
40) Zero
In TOC, 99.99% of the articles here throw bricks at the government.
Thank you. You are the only one (other than crazy old me) who stood up to say this. And I got a ton of bricks throwm on me for saying this. But nevertheless I will say it again.
Because unless and until TOC and its readers can recognise this, it cannot steer away from being seen as anti establishment for the sake of anti establishment and it will lose all the commenters who are not so extreme in their views, like crazy old me.
Is it what it wants to be?
KopitiamApek, don’t be selective.
Zero said:
In TOC, 99.99% of the articles here throw bricks at the government.
In MSM, 99.99% of the articles are pro-government.
Because unless and until the MSM and its readers can recognise this, it cannot steer away from being seen as pro establishment for the sake of pro establishment and it will lose all the readers who are not so extreme in their views, like crazy old me.
Is it what it wants to be?
“Zero said:
In TOC, 99.99% of the articles here throw bricks at the government.
In MSM, 99.99% of the articles are pro-government.”
Not a bad choice to segregate the articles by media type. Readers can now read with their eyes wide open knowing that If they want to feel good in a make-believe world, they can read MSM, and if they want the brutal truth and harsh reality of the lesser mortals, they can read TOC and other social political blogs . Best of both world. The yin and yang neutralizes each other and create equilibrium.
Perception is reality, and it will be next to impossible to change the impression of social political blogs and MSM as their stakeholders have different agendas.
Credibility of the article only lies in the eyes of the beholder.
“KopitiamApek, don’t be selective” by namenick(53)
Hi KopitiamApek,
If being selective doesn’t cut any ice with you, how about censorious, choisy, critical, demanding, discriminative, eclectic, excluding, insular, narrow, picky, priggish, prohibitive, restrictive, scrupulous and snobbish sound to you
Best regards
Sorry, i almost forgot
Congrats TOC for this milestone in your historical march forward
However, i have to agree with Gemami somewhat that maybe some views will moderated unnecesarily. I look forward to TOC acomodating more diverse, if possible radical views which might be
marked by a considerable departure from the usual or traditional
This is the only way IMHO that TOC will keep one step ahead of the competition, and it won’t be long before we hit the 1 million comments mark.
great job toc!
pull down the srtongholds of msm st, then the garhment starts to know that singaporeans are not daft.
They are all out to destroy them completely. We will not show any more mercy to this evil garhment now. We want to boot all of them out from this coming GE.
We want new govt to replace this old ones.