Quoting qdemir:

CANLI has started the thread to thank Erdinç for his help with the Turkish language. However the thread has turned out to be criticism of how he used to moderate the site in the past.

I wonder if now those who critisize him dared criticize him when he used to be a moderator.

Quoting erdinc:

Hello everybody. Thank you all who wrote on this topic. It has been a nice read.

Without a doubt my experience on this website has increased my interest on online communities and web sites. It has been a good experience for me.

This website has evolved on its own unique way. It has become an online community of members who like to visit the forums regularly and share their ideas on different subjects with other members.

There are topics here on a wide range of subjects. While this is only natural for such a community it was not exactly within my style of interacting with people or being a part of those interactions. Unfortunately I didn't have the authority on this website and nor the technical talent to make big changes on the ways how the site operates.

Once we tried an editorial way of publishing new articles and we picked some editors for cultural forums but this project failed because most of our editors were to shy to write a few lines on their own field.

Currently I'm more focused creating content for future projects and I'm trying to avoid unnecessarities.

As Turks we have some good and some not so good values. Cultural changes that started with the Internet age have been challanging some of our good values. I think Internet can exist in a different way than most Turkish youths are understanding it to be. We constantly need to work on new and creative solutions to rise the level on Internet based intellectual communications.

If cultural disruption is a truth for todays ipod-msn generation then it is even a more real problem for Turkish youths. As somebody who made these topics an issue of his own life, I might have read things differently then those who are used to a more formal and distant approach.

Well, things change and time passes. We need to move on.

I decided to move this topic to a more appropriate and less eye catching place.

Slavica,
You have certainly put a nice collection together. Thank you. There is very little to add. I sometimes think what is left behind is only a few harmonious words. I wish I had more chance to find them. I sometimes tried. Maybe my army experience can be added to your list.

I think I will spend more time in the future translating a few of my favorite poets and musicians. Maybe I can manage to put those together on the internet somehow. I, unfortunately don't have much talent on creating web sites. I have always avoided becoming a technical person. It is dangerous to dip to much into technicality and to become a technical person. I'm sometimes struggling how to approach todays technical World. Finding a balance is challanging in many ways.

I guess I'll be still around now and then. Bye.

Quoting ramayan:

to be frank...i didnt miss him ..im sure he didnt miss me too

Quoting ramayan:

Nowadays I have a feeling that TC is a translation centre and a place just for the ones learning turkish...but I see it as a family. I have made many pals here. And I want to thank them all for being my friends.

But I have a few questions such as...Is what I do wrong? Can't we use TC to make new friends from different countries and cultures, together with working on translations and studies? Is it not allowed for us to have fun in here? Shall we all behave ourselves and make TC another one formal website, strictly educational?

Quoting erdinc:

There are some limitations to use the website the way you describe. You could check Forum Rules again but I will explain some rules in a simple way:

A few of these limitations are as follows:

1. Don't send invitiations to strangers for chatting (on msn, skype, icq etc).
2. If a person doesnt want your private messages don't insist on sending more.

3. Avoid personal discussions. Argumentative language is not allowed for personal discussions. Arguments can be written towards the public but not towards a certain member. If you want to write to another person do it only if you have something nice to say. If it is too personal considersending a private message.

4. If you want to do a chat use our chat feature and don't use the forums:
www.turkishclass.com/chatMain.php

Currently in the off-topic forum there is more flexibility considering language and spelling.

5. In forums don't use an annoying language or spelling. For instance the following are not a good idea in the forums. If these kind posts are outside the off-topic forum than they might be deleted.

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ppl
Im
duno
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hahahhaha
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....ummmmmm...
alalalaaa
.....hehehehhehehehehehhe
hahhahahahha
muchhhhh
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why???why?????????
????ouh nooooooo
ummmmmmmmmmmm.....
grçktn
ahhhhhhhhhh
allahallaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
türkçem b*k gibi
...aptal....
saw dis....ehuehuehu
bi çektir git yaaaaaaaa
abazaaaaaaaaaaaa
gıs yalaka seniiiiiiiiiii
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