Translation:
6. Do not ever use this venue for planning any meeting or demonstration.

7. Mentioning or referencing the king or his speech is extremely daring and inappropriate. Do not.

Beware. Your membership may be at risk. Mine was temporarily revoked, but not because of this matter. I was very frustrated.

• Accountability: You are responsible for your own words, and the community may be held responsible for them, too. This forces members to monitor one another and the community owner and webmasters to create rules and regulations (netiquettes), censoring system and certain practices. Pantip's Rajdumnern Table is one among very few communities in Thailand that require national ID numbers to verify actual identification. Pantip was temporarily closed a few times during the military regime during 2006-2008.
   

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  Translation: Do you, the thread starter, have any reason or proof to convince us, apart from the claims made here? If you do, please share them. This not only forces the posters to be accountable for their words, but it could also be an example of "monitoring devices" too.
   

• Monitoring devices: Peers with abilities to challenge any wrong assumption, unsubstantiated claims, or uncivilized
  postings; censorship (automatic; member voting for deletion; and Webmaster's manual power
  - Some members with unpopular views that violate the regulations have been canceled their membership for good.
  - Some were intimidated by group pressure and monitor and left.  Members sometimes ganged up to help protect someone in their closer circle or their shared ideologies.
   
• Conditional democracy:
  There is no real democracy when the country is not fully democratic. This community had to adjust to the political and social changes while trying to influence them.
   
• Negotiation: My opinions count!????? People are encouraged to participate more when they feel that their preferences are recognized, considered and/or respected. Negotiations occur at many levels: personal-group, group-group, group-other subgroups, individual-webmasters, group-webmasters.
  
• This member is asking the webmaster about why his threads were blocked, demanding an explanation.

Balance?

Balanced elements help to compensate the negatives with the positives, helping to keep members participating.

Last updated 10/04/2008 by S. Thinsan