Things that annoy me - #5
(Have I made a post about this already?)
Now that I've mentioned AKJ.org in the previous post, and because this presents an opportunity to explain the strikethrough across the AKJ.org link on the side panel, I will try to explain why AKJ.org so greatly annoys me.
AKJ.org has hurt the reputation of the Jatha in the past few years immeasurably. Their incapability of moderating their own message board makes them look like... like, they really don't care.
Their judgment when it comes to allowing or disallowing posts is capricious and arbitrary. And when they do choose to have "principles" or standards in their moderating policies, their judgment is usually immoral and wrong.
They'll allow completely useless posts bashing so many different sangats including Dodhra, and thinly veiled but inappropriate criticisms of Taksal and other groups, which alienates countless people, and in other cases, they don't allow up posts defending "Jatha positions" on several topics. If I didn't know any better I'd suspect that anti-AKJ forces had hijacked the Administration of the message board.
The atmosphere on the board is nauseating. The level and amount of intellectual discussion on that board has been stifled and slowly but surely killed.
I've heard numerous stories about innocent posts being rejected. Clean and pure questions on Gurmat, very long and deeply researched posts on rehit, and even "inspirational" stories!
AHHHH! I just get so angry thinking about it. How can such people own and operate the Jatha's "official" site? Its a travesty. AKJ.org used to be the TOP Sikh message board up until 2 or 3 years ago, and then because of their arrogance, they threw it all away.
I'll just give you one last example. A few months ago, I e-mailed an AKJ.org Administrator expressing complaints and concerns about the direction of the Website. I suggested that a friend of mines become a moderator in order for faster updates and more lively discussion to take place on the message board. I was surprised, but within one day, my friend was given full Admin status on the message board. Now unfortunately, because of other committments, he was unable to help out as much as I would have hoped, but within a few months, the corrupt and out-of-touch Admins revoked his moderator status in their ever-so passionate quest to alienate and annoy every person they felt was possible to annoy. My friend did not share the same view as the rest of the Admins on a particular issue, and because of that, they cruelly and without-notice removed his Admin privileges. This is just one example of a pattern of arrogance and putting personal agendas ahead of the panthic good.
In some sense, AKJ.org became somewhat of a Sikh institution in the late 90s and up until 2002, it was the first site to provide free keertan (as far as I know; and they still do, so good for them), and its message board was the best on the entire internet. When a website becomes an institution, like AKJ.org became, its tragic and sad when the wrong people assume control, or when the people who were previously in control lose their way.
There are so many other examples of AKJ.org's carelessness and arrogance, yet I don't have the time or energy to list them all.
PS. I was listening to a certain AKJ.org moderator's keertan while writing this entire post... How ironic and weird.
Now that I've mentioned AKJ.org in the previous post, and because this presents an opportunity to explain the strikethrough across the AKJ.org link on the side panel, I will try to explain why AKJ.org so greatly annoys me.
AKJ.org has hurt the reputation of the Jatha in the past few years immeasurably. Their incapability of moderating their own message board makes them look like... like, they really don't care.
Their judgment when it comes to allowing or disallowing posts is capricious and arbitrary. And when they do choose to have "principles" or standards in their moderating policies, their judgment is usually immoral and wrong.
They'll allow completely useless posts bashing so many different sangats including Dodhra, and thinly veiled but inappropriate criticisms of Taksal and other groups, which alienates countless people, and in other cases, they don't allow up posts defending "Jatha positions" on several topics. If I didn't know any better I'd suspect that anti-AKJ forces had hijacked the Administration of the message board.
The atmosphere on the board is nauseating. The level and amount of intellectual discussion on that board has been stifled and slowly but surely killed.
I've heard numerous stories about innocent posts being rejected. Clean and pure questions on Gurmat, very long and deeply researched posts on rehit, and even "inspirational" stories!
AHHHH! I just get so angry thinking about it. How can such people own and operate the Jatha's "official" site? Its a travesty. AKJ.org used to be the TOP Sikh message board up until 2 or 3 years ago, and then because of their arrogance, they threw it all away.
I'll just give you one last example. A few months ago, I e-mailed an AKJ.org Administrator expressing complaints and concerns about the direction of the Website. I suggested that a friend of mines become a moderator in order for faster updates and more lively discussion to take place on the message board. I was surprised, but within one day, my friend was given full Admin status on the message board. Now unfortunately, because of other committments, he was unable to help out as much as I would have hoped, but within a few months, the corrupt and out-of-touch Admins revoked his moderator status in their ever-so passionate quest to alienate and annoy every person they felt was possible to annoy. My friend did not share the same view as the rest of the Admins on a particular issue, and because of that, they cruelly and without-notice removed his Admin privileges. This is just one example of a pattern of arrogance and putting personal agendas ahead of the panthic good.
In some sense, AKJ.org became somewhat of a Sikh institution in the late 90s and up until 2002, it was the first site to provide free keertan (as far as I know; and they still do, so good for them), and its message board was the best on the entire internet. When a website becomes an institution, like AKJ.org became, its tragic and sad when the wrong people assume control, or when the people who were previously in control lose their way.
There are so many other examples of AKJ.org's carelessness and arrogance, yet I don't have the time or energy to list them all.
PS. I was listening to a certain AKJ.org moderator's keertan while writing this entire post... How ironic and weird.
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