Hi all,
We would like to thank everyone for their comments and feedback. We would like to assure everyone that we would investigate first before we act on any 'tip-off' which we received. It is solely our decision whether we take appropriate actions on a user and threads posted.
For every tip-off we receive, we take about 20 mintues to investigate before actions are taken. When there are 10 threads which we are investigating, it can easily take up to 200 minutes. These are precious times which we can focus our attentions on developing SingaporeMotherhood.com. We can write more articles, develop more tools, include more information etc. We do not like to ban a user or remove a thread. But we have no choice. There are just too many business owners or service providers who are using our resources for their own financial gains.
In an ideal situation, the business owners or service providers should advertise with us. That way, they get to create more awarness and business; our users get to buy from known service providers; we get the resources to continue operating and further developing SingaporeMotherhood.com for all our users.
Instead, we are getting more people who abuse our forum. Currently, about 50% of the messages are concentrated in the marketplace and many of them are posted by non-advertisers promoting their own business. Some blatantly obvious, some covert. It is not a good situation to be in.
Everyday, we spend a lot of time just to look through the forum and we can't look through all. We still need to find time to maintain the forum, hardware, development and get revenue to keep the portal operational. That is why, we do appreciate all the help we can get.
Currently, we allow the users to e-mail, PM or post their messages here. We leave the choice to you in how you want to contact us. However, we'll be monitoring the situation. If the situation worsen and there is a need to close this thread, we'll do so.
Regards,
Chin Leng.