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tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

I REALLY wish there wasn't a post count tracker. I am sorry if my large number of posts tick people off. I'm sorry, but I am a chatty person. If anyone ever gets the misfortune of meeting me in person then you'll know. I do avoid participating in threads that I know can get quite heated and confrontational, or threads that I have no interest in and/or have no knowledge of. That is one reason I often discontinue myself from further debate on certain issues (Taiwan independence is a prime example).

Dave's has been a great place for me to share opinions on China-related topics. Yes, I am bored, I don't have a definite job now (with luck hopefully things will change by next week), and I don't have a life. I've enjoyed reading many people's views (though not always agreeing with them). I don't have a personal agenda here other than shooting the breeze and offer suggestions and advice when I feel I can. If some of you old-timers can't handle it, then feel free and ask the moderators to ban me.

Sekhmet · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 329 Location: Alexandria, Egypt

So, how do you find out what your ranking is? I never even heard of that before! Why would anyone even particularly WANT to know??!! The post counter is fun, in its own little way, but I don't think it makes any difference to anything how many posts people make... However, 5000 posts IS pretty impressive...

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:09 am Post subject: How to check "rankings"

profile · Joined: 03 Jun 2005 Posts: 776

I don't really understand why the quantity of a person's posts should particularly matter.

I like to hear from "tw" as, being CBC (hope I have that right), he can offer insights we non-Chinese may lack.

Chris_Crossley

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

I definitely feel it is a community. I know quite a few posters by sight or by sound of their voice (via telephone). Some have helped me (get me a job in Shanghai, for example, that I couldn't accept for domestic reasons); others have offered housing (and I have benefitted from this offer a number of times).

I spent 6 years without any such forum before and was constantly wishing a FTs network existed. Most of my legal knowledge came to me through some incident that opened my eyes to certain realities - what happens if you are illegal (I was, and it was my boss' fault).
My parents died one after the other within the years I have been here; when my old man died my sisters asked me to return for a holiday and for the sharing out of the estate; I had to turn this request down and don't feel much regret as I am firmly anchored in China.

I have met numerous FTs, and often I got taken for a ride, hence my increasingly cautious answers; take this example: a guy arrived here and got a job from an employer I had recommended to him.
He finally ended up in a different location than the first one; bizarrely I knew that place intimately enough for having worked in the same town.

He was still on a businessman's visa; later he emailed me to inform me that he had had to leave China. Reason? He had been spotted by a PSB man who was the parent of one of his kindergarten pupils; when he showed his passport to the policeman he learnt he had one week time to become legal.
He underwent a medical - or so he said; the check-up declared him an HIV-positive person, thus ineligible fpr a job here.
He went to Thailand - or so he said.

As an aside, he had told me frankly that he was HIV positive and a gay. But he said this after he landed his first job.

Mideatoo · Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:

Yes it is, and like all communities it has its bullies.........