Late New Years Resolution?

I love the idea of having our own 'sonkolletjie'! We can even name the section 'ons eie sonkolletjie'! But having just our own section won't solve the problem. We still won't be able to use any words other than English. Besides, we have all kinds of questions as well that belong under different categories.

Darth Father has a brilliant idea. But how on earth will we get our own sonkolletjie site if yahoo doesn't have staff in SA? Besides, some of us do browse in other categories, having contacts from other categories too. That will make it difficult for us.

Boikotting sounds like a good idea, but it won't help... would they even miss our questions and answers in this section? We would miss it more!

A petition won't work either, as it has already been tried.

The link Vango gave looks like a nice sonkolletjie for us within yahoo, but somehow I don't think it's the same.

The links Cakes mentioned also look nice, but somehow I don't think that's the same either.

We will all keep coming back and yahoo knows that. So do we.

The idea of having our own 'sonkolletjie' sounds like a great idea, but if we think about it carefully, this is in fact what we want. Just like it is. We know that the rules are there for a reason.

All we need to do is play it safe. If we want to use words like 'sonkolletjie', perhaps explain it under source the way I just did. I feel, this gives us the freedom to perform our own individuality, yet it is not completely out of line, anybody who understands English can follow it.

Then also, if we want to ask a poll question for example, go ahead, post it in the poll section, most of us are connected anyway and we will find each other's questions easily. Sure we can stick together in other sections too! Besides, we will get more answers that way.

The problem that I foresee with a "closed community", is that it will become boring. The whole fun of this chatting is that anyone can join in, yet we always have a small "core community" to keep the place sort of "normal". And we need non-South Africans to join in too. There are many sites where people can chat in afrikaans, like goggaweb, and afrikaanschat, but there are so many taking part, and one is not always online at the same time as the others.

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Maybe we should try it for 2 weeks or so. Like the others did on Facebook. For me, the Facebook method of conversing was not ideal, so I refrained from it.

So, I have suggestion: Should we ALL move to this place that Vango has mentioned? Stay there for at least 2 weeks, and NOT go on Yahoo Q&A SA travel section. And then we see how VREK the section is? Wishful thinking! Could we make it work? What would Yahoo do when this Travel section is as gevrek as the one on Yahoo.de?

Lol Honey I got a vilation notice today cause I answered you In Afrikaans,but I also wished every one a Happy New year in English,Hell I dont know what's going on in the South African forum anymore,but I went to the website that Vango suggested and I loved it,and yes I agree with Cakes lets boycott this site and see what they do.Here have a star.xxx

Lol Loverboy me thinks your the one that got us all in Crappie street.

So Honey pls stay away and then we might not have violtion notices,stalking a woman is a no go aerae ok?

Jaco, Porgie, MJ, I myself and others wrote a few letters and some even sent a petition before. It does not help, a computer just take note of your question being reported and remove it. We also applied for a SA section, but Y/A do not have staff in SA, so therefore they will not give us our own site. My best advice is to post your questions early in the day, the American trolls come online around one or two o'clock SA time and then they hammer the travel sections, not just SA's one. If you have controversial questions, do not leave them overnight. Also do not make friends or fans with people you do not know. They use this as a marker to troll you. If you have a TC badge, be extra carefull, because they try to target you even more.

Jaco, I agree with Darth and Cakes. A different section is not the answer and we just have to be careful. Posting questions for many of us in the mornings are difficult because we are at work and I am afraid that our questions will just get fewer and fewer. I would hate to move somewhere else as I am addicted to this section already and am sure many others too.

It's worth a try and I'll support it.

There are some pretty young kids on YA over the holidays and I think some of them just want to be "funny." Except they are not funny, just irritating.

Don't take anything personally. Anyone can report a comment (even you) and some do it as a matter of course to send you up.

Lol i would love that but i agree with Darth it is just no use and I've had 8 violations myself already

There already is one: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/southafricanseverywh... , but not many people use it. Maybe you can revive it for us, Jaco.

Cakes has a good point. If only we could block the reporters...

"Hoera vir ons eie plekkie onder die son " or must we say Viva son viva

I don,t no who to contact but we can pull them out by our Questions and maybe if they are brave annoth they will answer

hmmm...perhaps we should have all interested sign an on-line petition.