2003 Letters to the Editor

[Tango Alpha]

Jackson

I agree with HazlEyes on how the cities now appear. I like boards with new messages appearing first rather than the alpha order. I regularly view the boards in which I have previously mongered and it is much easier to see what is new in them with the old order.

I bet if you did a survey on this it would be at least 2 to 1 for the old posting order.

Originally posted by HazlEyes
Jackson - I'm noticing a new behavior in the boards. On the state boards with multiple city sub-boards, the city boards list page used to sort the cities by most recent posting, but now the city list remains sorted alphabetically regardless of last post.

This is not a good change, in my opinion. Generally, I'm only interested in one or two cities in a state (e.g. in VA I'm interested in Richmond and NOVA but not the tidewater-area or western cities.) Previously, a quick glance at the city list page told me whether there were new posts in my cities of interest by those cities being at the top of the list. Now, I have to read the small-print date on each city's line to determine whether new posts exists, which is both harder on these old eyes, and more prone to mistakes.

I would ask that you restore the old behavior if possible. Thanks!

Haz

Hi Hazleyes,

I understand your position, but my opinion is that it's better that the sections are listed in alphabetical sequence all the time because it means that every time you return to the list, your favorite cities are alyays in the same location on the list, as opposed to being presented in different locations on the list from day to day.

Jackson

[Jose Marcia]

Jackson,

I tried to send a small donation for WSG Charities, Inc. thru PayPal but was unsucessful. I am sending a check to the Delaware address.

Since my check contains my real name and address, I hope that you will keep my real identity a secret. Thanks.

Keep up the good work and God bless you for such a wonderful job.

Hi,

Thanks for the donation. The names and other information of all WSG Charity contributors are kept strictly confidential.

Jackson

[HazlEyes]

Jackson - I'm noticing a new behavior in the boards. On the state boards with multiple city sub-boards, the city boards list page used to sort the cities by most recent posting, but now the city list remains sorted alphabetically regardless of last post.

This is not a good change, in my opinion. Generally, I'm only interested in one or two cities in a state (e.g. in VA I'm interested in Richmond and NOVA but not the tidewater-area or western cities.) Previously, a quick glance at the city list page told me whether there were new posts in my cities of interest by those cities being at the top of the list. Now, I have to read the small-print date on each city's line to determine whether new posts exists, which is both harder on these old eyes, and more prone to mistakes.

I would ask that you restore the old behavior if possible. Thanks!

Haz

Hi Hazleyes,

I understand your position, but my opinion is that it's better that the sections are listed in alphabetical sequence all the time because it means that every time you return to the list, your favorite cities are alyays in the same location on the list, as opposed to being presented in different locations on the list from day to day.

Jackson

[Meaty]

Hi Jackson,

Excellent site, great stuff, love the photo idea. One question, i notice several of the Thailand members getting the text WSG Charity Benefactor under their username, what does it mean? Whats it all about?

Cheers

M

Hi Meaty,

The blue WSG Charity Benefactor is a link. Just select it and you'll be taken to the Charity's website.

Jackson

[Chesh]

Greetings Jackson,

First off, I would like to thank you for the time that you spend sustaining the site. The World Sex Guide is a one of a kind place, its' importance and value in helping hobbyists is tremendous.

My question for you concerns the posting of photos. I beleive I had read that pictures of women or places from the States were not allowed. Is this indeed the case? If it is, forgive my ignorance but, why? I am not suggesting that it is a dumb policy as I am sure that there are some good reasons for it. I assume that it has to do with legal issues, but I am not sure and curious.

Thanks so much!

[5280bj]

FILES SHOWING UP IN MY COMPUTER

After running Ad-Aware 6.0, I have noticed that I am getting Data Miner Tracking Cookies in my computer from using this web site.

Is there any way to stop this from happening from your end???

5280bj

[Le Grand]

Great to see the reactivation of the photo feature. Two questions ...

(a) Is there a way to add more than one photo per report?

(b) The new approach seems to be different from the old approach of sending you mail directly with photos attachments to be put into a seperate "Photo Gallery". Is that going to disappear? I like the old approach since all photos are in one place but I like the new approach since I can get better context to the photo.

Le Grand

Hi Le Grand,

I haven't found any capability in the Forum software to facilitate more than one photograph per report, although I certainly agree that it's a good idea.

I understand your observations about the previous method of displaying the photographs. However, it simply proved to time consuming for me, as opposed to allowing members to post their photographs directly into the Forum, which doesn't require any work on my part.

Thanks,

Jackson

[Play2]

Hello Jackson,

I believe that you're probably getting around to it ... however, I was hoping that you would add "photo" sections for places such as Tijuana and Peru. I just posted 2 photos in Lima's section, but was hoping that they could be moved to a "photo" section. Thank you for all of your work. I can imagine that keeping this site together is one rather harrowing task.

-play

[Skinless]

Jackson: Well done on the photo sections. I am glad the big breasted one has the most hits so far (if you add her Thai women section photo to her Thai Photo section one). As someone who was getting 10 short timers a day before John Skinless arrived, she really deserves it. Some of the BA photo ladies are nice enough to warrant a John Skinless poke too. It is interesting that they have generated more comments in the BA section than in the Thai and other sections. A higher user/cruiser ratio no doubt!

I will post some "direction" photos of my Tokyo stomping grounds soon.

I trust you have bandwidth concerns well covered. Anyway, well done from all of us.

[Boxcc]

Jackson, I love all the new stuff you keep adding. The message storage board was very interesting and informative. Keep up all the hard work, it is very much appreciated.

Box

[Big Bug]

Jackson,

could you please modify my user from bigbg to Big Bug.

thanks.

bug

[Boxcc]

Hey Jackson, great idea for a Compaints about other members section. I usually hate to bother you with complaints like that, because I know you are so busy trying to keep this site up and running while improving it everyday.

I am however a little confused and would like to ask a question. Is it better just to report a questionable post to you with the link at the bottom of the post, or is it better to complain on your new Complaints board? I don't want to get involved in, nor start any more flame wars. As you so eloquently pointed out, that is not what this forum is to be used for. So, I would rather just point out some of the questionable posts to you and let you take care of the problem. I just want to know the best way to do that. Thanks for your time, it is appreciated.

Regards,

Box

Hi Box,

Actually, there's no reason you can't use both avenues to apprise me of troublemakers. However, the "Report this post to a moderator" function is perfect for alerting me of a specific post, and the Complaints section is intended to provide a seperate area where one or several members can join in to alert me of persisent problems with a specific member.

We'll see how it works out.

Jackson

[Progman]

Jackson,

I saw the changes you made to the Philippines Forum. I'm not sure I follow them. I thought you had separate sections for archives. If so - wouldn't you consider the “Angeles City - 2002 Reports” forum an archive as well? Also, I'm not sure I understand the distinction between “Angeles City – 2003 Reports” and the regular discussion forums (as in Cebu, Manila, etc). Was your intent to have these forums “Reports” only? I just wanted a little clarification. Thanks!

...(prog)

I discovered the other day that when a thread gets too big I can't use some of the admin functions, so I decided to start limiting the size of the biggest threads by splitting them into seperate years.

[Otter Trax]

I'm sorry to say: I resent not being able to read Jony Vegas posts on the Rio de Janeiro board. He brought up some valid points about certain users not utilizing the content of the board and sort of got on a rant which is totally understandable and justified to bring to light. Then he's attacked by the people who are ruining the content of the board and not allowed to make an intelligent reply to fend off posters who think this board exists to provide them with personalized travel agency services. I have to
say that Jony Vegas always makes outstanding contributions that are readable and informative in my short time as a frequenter of this web site. Likewise he should be given credit for trying to illuminate a situation that could easily be remedied if some of those posters who how in the hell they made SENIOR status when all they do is post for travel assistance is beyond my logic.

If I reported every message that appears to be abusing the intent of the WSG Forum, I think it would be soon overwhelming from its shear repeticiousness, but I am sorely tempted.

Kind regards,

Otter

Report everything and let me sort them out.

Jackson

[Scorpio]

Just did some research about Argentina and came across the following link leading to different escorts, masajistas etc. Maybe it can be added to the Argentina links section...

http://www.sitiosargentina.com.ar/AD...0ARGENTINA.htm

Cheers, Scorpio

(maybe I'll make it down to Argentina in October, can't wait !)