Hello dear xossipians,
I m a regular visitor and member of xossip for more than seven years. I would like to share my bitter experience on one movie forum whose name I don't want to mention.
I recently joined this movie forum under an indian user name. I started some threads on A R Rahman and his contribution in Hollywood movies there. But some racist miscreants in that forum would deliberately make rude and baseless comments in my thread. Despite avoiding it, whenever I started threads, these bullies would harass again with their anti- india comments and hatred towards Indians. I put them on ignore list but their sardonic comments would invite other members to mock the debate up. I was fed up of this non-sense and even complained to the Moderators and Administrator about some members being racist. But the moderators turned a deaf ears and instead told me that "This is a 'forum' and just as you, everyone else also have their respective opinions... so if you don't accept others thoughts or comments, you are free to leave this forum forever and read your favorite news-paper instead." :verysad:
I lost my temper and gave those racist members a piece of my mind. This insulted them and suddenly every other member on that forum began to attack me for being rude and obnoxious towards those members. All attacked like a pack of wolves. One moderator even infracted me under the 'using disrespectful speech towards other members' law of the forum. Within three hours I had black-points and -ve reputation on my profile. I had enough and I have decided never to join these foreign forums. I m not complaining or whinning but now I have developed deep respect towards my India and its people. No matter how my country is, I m proud of it and love it for the way it is and proud of fellow Indians who value others as human beings. :bow:
I m a regular visitor and member of xossip for more than seven years. I would like to share my bitter experience on one movie forum whose name I don't want to mention.
I recently joined this movie forum under an indian user name. I started some threads on A R Rahman and his contribution in Hollywood movies there. But some racist miscreants in that forum would deliberately make rude and baseless comments in my thread. Despite avoiding it, whenever I started threads, these bullies would harass again with their anti- india comments and hatred towards Indians. I put them on ignore list but their sardonic comments would invite other members to mock the debate up. I was fed up of this non-sense and even complained to the Moderators and Administrator about some members being racist. But the moderators turned a deaf ears and instead told me that "This is a 'forum' and just as you, everyone else also have their respective opinions... so if you don't accept others thoughts or comments, you are free to leave this forum forever and read your favorite news-paper instead." :verysad:
I lost my temper and gave those racist members a piece of my mind. This insulted them and suddenly every other member on that forum began to attack me for being rude and obnoxious towards those members. All attacked like a pack of wolves. One moderator even infracted me under the 'using disrespectful speech towards other members' law of the forum. Within three hours I had black-points and -ve reputation on my profile. I had enough and I have decided never to join these foreign forums. I m not complaining or whinning but now I have developed deep respect towards my India and its people. No matter how my country is, I m proud of it and love it for the way it is and proud of fellow Indians who value others as human beings. :bow: