Blacklisted topics

Originally posted by DayI ethnicity doesnt anything todo with moderation, a mod becomes a mod when he's accepted by the community and by other mods as a mod.

My question is a simle qustion, and with this question i don`t want to say anything about the quality of the moderation here.

I don`t know... Is this really true, or you just joking?

OK, what is the ethnicity of the other(non-turk) moderators?

You hate me?

A reason?

Or for you the easiest thing is to hate?

I know. I just talk with you, and talk, and talk...

we have at least 3 turkish mods, Seko (global mod, USA), kotumeyil and theDiplomat.

Originally posted by Temujin we have at least 3 turkish mods, Seko (global mod, USA), kotumeyil and theDiplomat.

Thank you, Temujin.

Thank you, Temujin.

You should ask him other mods too. 

I have noticed some ominous trend in AE these past weeks. As we all know the Turkish have members have an overwhelming majority in AE. The ratio of new Turkish members also by far is greater than other nationalities. Along with this the number of Turkey-related threads (stupid threads...), those that spread the greatness of Turks, Turkey etc...have greatly increased (I usually skip the "Steppe" part of the forum nowadays). Along with this, since the topics have been blacklisted I have witnessed a general drop in the number of active participation of Greeks, Armenians, Kurds and Iranians. When I first started in AE, in January almost all of the Turk-related threads have been checked and re-checked by Armenian, Assyrian, Greek, Iranian members, so not to contain material that may be offensive to either of those nationalities or absurd just in on itself. Lately however, presence of non-Turk members on Turkish threads has been greatly diminshed. Many "arguable" posts are not corrected by "outsiders" anymore. Some old (Turkish) members I have witnessed (DayI, Seko, Mortaza ) try to keep the inaccuracies to a mnimum, but still, there are many inaccuracies and a Turk doesnt criticize a Turk all the time (while and Armenian or a Greek can :)). The most bothersome part of this is that most new members are obsessed with the Turkic world, opening threads only about Turks, posting only in those.
There is a vast amount of information in AE, many of these Turkish posts, attract even more new Turkish members, most of those again, obsessed with Turks only, not caring about history of others.

I am afraid, given enough time, AE will be divided into people who like history, and those obsessed with the greatness of the Turks.

Meanwhile, I think AE, unwittingly is shying away Armenian, Greek, Assyrian members, and those who try to argue the black pages in Turkey's past. By nature, Armenian students would want to discuss the Genocide because it is a very important event in our history, and I am assuming there are similar topics in Greek history. Moreover, the lack of these topics in "active topics" due to the blacklist would not enable newcomers of other nationalities to be aquianted with these topics, since I doubt someone from Mali would suddenly make a search for the "Armenian Genocide" out of thin air, or about "kurds" whom he/she has probably never heard of.

In conjunction with this, the lack of control already evident on some Turkish threads is only going to mislead these new members, there is a limit to which old Turkish members can fix the errors of the new.

At last I would like to say, that I do not want the Armenian Genocide specifically to be withdrawn from the blacklisted, mainly because Turks outnumber Armenian about 10:1 on this forum, and it would be hard to keep track of all the "Armenian Genocide is a lie" threads.

Note that this post is not supposed to be an anti-Turk thread, just pointing out an observation, comment on :)

I meant in comparison with other nationalities, and who are active...