Quoting sophie: OK I think we’ve had enough of this mad situation over here.
Where are you dear admins? Don’t you care about what your creation is turning into? This was supposed to be a website that was built out of love and it’s main purpose was to help people learn the Turkish language and collect info about Turkia and it’s culture. And the general forums, were like a meeting place for the members, where they could get to know each other better through a lighthearted humorous chat, or through friendly debates. Is that what TC is now????
Let me tell you what TC is NOW:
A low quality translation center, with hostile members who don’t lose a chance to argue with each other about almost everything. Even the most naïve comment, is enough to make members attack each other. The Turkish members are keeping their mouths shut and the foreign ones are chatting about their own countries. I m sick and tired of reading about U.S. and U.K. in a forum that is supposed to be about TURKIA! The only pieces of Turkish poetry and literature that I can see lately, are the parts of the poems that a Turkish lover is sending to his British girlfriend and their translation is requested. The only news we are reading about Turkia, are the bombing attacks. On the other hand, I can read a variety of posts about crime in the US, pervert political parties in Holland and so on. Should I start posting the news from Greece as well??? Yeah I know this is an international community with members from all over the world. But all those members should have one common purpose: to learn about Turkia. If not, then they should be members of some other site. There are billions of them out there in the net.
What I ve also noticed and only ONE member so far had the courage to point out (thx Robin), is that some of the newest members of TC don’t even know how to speak and write their own language (i.e. English), while they try to teach the rest of us how to speak and what to think. I am Greek and I m trying to learn a 3rd language, through a forum that is “speaking†in another language that also is not my own. It’s so difficult, but still, when I write, I try to write correctly and with the fewest mistakes possible. I find it insulting, when I see a British member, using words like “nuffing†for nothing, “I no†for I know etc etc. Why do I have to be careful when I type but they don’t? At least, I am the one who should be tolerated, since I m trying to speak and learn in a language that is not my real one. For God’s sake show some respect to all those who are trying to learn something here.
I am the one (together with my twiny  and a few more) who used to ride the forums and spoil them. But even then, we were only trying to tease and light up the atmosphere using some good (I hope) humor. But even in my worst nightmares, I couldn’t imagine what is happening in TC these past few months, and more intensively the past few weeks. Fun is good. Nobody likes a site strictly educational and with no freedom of speech. But this is too much!
I would love to finish this post, with saying that I m withdrawing from this site (not that anyone would care….). But I won’t do it. Not just yet. I’ve loved this place like my home and I’ve considered the members of it like a family for too long, to quit just like that. But please! DO SOMETHING before it’s too late!
Thanks in advance
Sophie
(By the way, I m posting this message in the announcements' forum, only because I saw that admin is the only moderator here. Maybe this way I can catch his attention)
*****oooffff yaaaa! Had to get these off my chest!******
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anyway..thanks for the stockholm syndrome post..