Topic: Can the Philippines PLEASE get their own sub-section? - page 7. (Read 15730 times)

Hoppa! And just another couple of weeks and the number hit 600.000!!!

Most sub-fora I'm active in (Croatian, Dutch, Serbian) are not even close to that kind of activity...

Strange this group has not got it's own sub-forum yet...

not all Filipinos can speak and understand English very well. but ok lets say we can all speak and understand English but the purpose of the subforum we are requesting is to have clean threads/section for our discussion such as for mining, buying and selling bitcoins etc. how can we have discussion over those things if in just few minutes there are already several posts/pages added with different topics?

Sigh.

I don't even know where or what is your reference of saying that. Are you sure that majority of all people in 7,107 island of Philippines can speak English? If you can prove this Im with you but GOODLUCK.

Did you say official? Seriously its commonly used for business because theres people outside the ph involves in it and they cant speak tagalog. For my 22 years of living in ph i cant remember that ive heard a word such "official" declared to english as pilipino language for business.

But you got a point for most businesses english knowledge is a must for higher carrier like a lawyer, a call center agent etc but not for a pilipino selling on street the balut and any other small businesses. They dont speak english

Indeed a dedicated sub-section for the Philippines is the best move for this! I am in full support!

No one said they were spamming, the point is a forum is not needed due to the ability for a large majority of Filipinos speak English as it is the official language of business by law in their country.


A Philippine sub-forum is not needed.


~BCX~

Not sure if I the problem / hostility. I've never been bothered or even noticed a problem with supposed spamming by Phillipine natives.

Agreed.


~BCX~

@NLNico
In the italian section faucets/referrals are not permitted, and it works good

That besides its kinda hard to follow conversations when everyone is talking on all different discussions on a single thread.

I am not sure if there are 'that' many discussions about alt coins, but I agree a large part of the posts is about earning bitcoin (mostly sig campaigns) and unfortunately also ponzis. That being said, if you look at the Bitcoin PH FB group, you can also see there are plenty of people seriously interested in bitcoin, having in-depth discussions about it and organizing bitcoin-related events in PH. Still, there is plenty of spam on FB about faucets/referrals/etc. - but at the FB group that just gets deleted. So some rules and moderation would be required in a new subforum, yes. I think that's the case for any local subforum.

Currently, because a lot of the posts in the Filipino thread are about a specific part of bitcoin (let's call it "earning bitcins"), it can discourage other people to post about other subjects, like "using bitcoin as remittance". You could post about it, get a reply or two, but it would be hidden through the pages rather quickly. That is exactly the reason why I think a new subforum would be great (or: why I want it personally.) It allows different discussions more easily.

In addition I do think that Filipinos can sometimes have the need to talk in their native language. As a Dutch, I do like talking in Dutch sometimes, even though I use English much more than Dutch. STILL I think it is not a problem to have English discussions in a Filipino subforum either, especially if it's about specific events, meetings and subjects relevant to only the Philippines.



Personally I see it like this:
- Keep the "Pilipinas" topic in the subforum as sticky and allow any kind of discussion in there (but obv not insane spamming.) Just for quick-questions, off-topic things, etc.
- English/Tagalog topics/replies both fine.
- I hope there will be 1 Cebu topic with Cebuano language, depending if the ppl from Cebu want that. Or just a Bisaya topic. This all depends if there is a need for it.
- Referral links, especially to micro earning sites (faucets) and "invest sites" (ponzi scams) should be not allowed, but discussion of it somewhat tolerated in original "Pilipinas" topic, just like now. Just to protect the subforum against spam. It is the same rule as Bitcoin PH FB group and I assume other local subforums have this too (perhaps unofficially.)

I really think it will be great, and equal (or more) activity compared to other local subforums. I also think there will be more different subjects for discussions than the current topic, which IMO will lead to more Filipinos/expats/companies joining the discussions too.



In the end I also think it will not hurt anyone (most can just ignore the whole board ) especially if there is decent moderation. I agree there should be enough activity to justify a subforum for it, but I think there is and will be enough.

Haha, it is the same everywhere if there isn't any moderation
A dedicated sub-section with a good moderator can arrange this.

I take it you do not speak Tagalog. If you did you would see that a very large majority of the discussion is on alts, pozis, sig campaigns with very little discussion on Bitcoin itself.



~BCX~

Finally, a sub-forum dedicated to the Filipinos to flock in and discuss ideas! If in case there would be one, I'd be glad to translate the rules of bitcointalk into our own language (actually, I've started earlier before I went to bed).


Exactly, SFR10. We are not after altcoins but bitcoin itself. We can create our own forum if we wanted to, but that would probably be not as effective as what we have right now in bitcointalk where in most people already are in.

I think that it's a good idea to add a Filipino forum
Dedicated sub-sections help a lot on the growing of bitcoin communities around the world.
It helps connect more easily people to arrange business and projects.

Every new well-established Bitcoin community will also help all other nearby and connected communities.

First of all , me for instance have been into many countries in asia already and the very first time I visited india, I had to explore different places and even tried some less blessed places and I was surprised that a poor kid understood my english really well and answered me in english really good too so base on what your saying I may have to disagree with you on that plus just because some are literate doesn't mean they would understand the bitcoin world in english, there's still the need to use our mother language in order to perfect the delivery of each part of explaining bitcoin in general

Secondly were after bitcoin not Altcoin

And for the third, we need to have the ability to have our own sub-forum due to large user base awaiting to get notified of and also in order to have a more organized topics and conversations which at the moment its anything except organized


Best Regards
~SFR~

Germany, Netherlands and India don't have English as the official language of their country.

The Philippines is by law an English speaking nation.

Also in contrast is that any literate Filipino speaks English, not so true in Germany, Netherlands or India.



There is no need for a "Philippine Sub Form".

If there's that much of a user base, start your own Pinoy Altcoin Forum on another domain.


~BCX~

There is a Need to discuss Bitcoin and anything related to it in a Philippine setting in order to make it more effective. And by having a sub forum will effectively solve this need. And just knowing how to speak and write in English should nullify this need, it does not.