I'm a member of different facebook groups to, the difference as I see it on a forum and FB groups is, you will get banned from forums if you post stupid comments like some people do in FB, seen some get banned 12 hours lol. I'm far from holy but the language in FB, where cunts are the most common word and content of the written, makes no sense. It's voluntary be a member of forums and FB sites and I delete my membership when I see it's only a bunch of cunts, LOL, who has no life other than on the internet. I gain a lot of good info from this site and Living in Cebu forums together with good intertainment, it's our own choice what FB sites and forums we want to join

 

there is absolutely no reason to post this kind of conjecture. the site is undergoing updates and that's that. the owner's profile certainly is not "monsoon" and he is not part of the staff. just because someone posts crap on a website doesn't mean it's true. the site also does not have any more problems with trolls or attacks than any other forum. just like this Dumaguete forum...LINC is made up of people living in, visiting or having family or friends from the Philippines.

 

The forum is online again

 

I thought the owner is known (and is publicly available), at least I thought so... but maybe some people did not get the memo. I do not want to publish names (as it should have come through the owners "memo"), but his profile is monsoon or now is member#1... so with this information, you should be able to get in touch with him. The facebook pages are still under the old owner (living in Cambodia), so not much use to go through there..

 

how about, for instance, a troll who creastes a website based on derogaotory lies about numerous forum members, and causes irreparable damage to reputations of good people. shuld he be allowed back in?

 

I'm not familiar at all with the site, but the /whois information on the domain suggests that there is an ongoing argument/dispute between owner and others (daily management?).
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I was disappointed to see the LinC forum just unexpectedly shut down. The moderators and old time members seemed to always talk about the camaraderie. Too bad the shut down was so abrupt and without any notice.

 

Since this discussion is still ongoing, has anyone noticed that "forums", in general, have been losing ground to Facebook Groups? A huge percentage of the ex-members of "another forum" are contributing members to a certain Cebu foreigners Facebook group.

I understand the addiction of instant response from large numbers of members when posting to Facebook, but along with that comes a large number of instant experts and instant expats who have either never left the US or have no clue what they are talking about. So common sense suggests we have moderators who muffle the trolls on a forum such as this one. However, I must be wrong due to the sheer numbers posting on certain Facebook groups.

So what is the future of forums such as this one? Growth? Stagnation? or going the way of Another Forum?