Thank you very much David, Wayne informed me already because he had the same problem.
Unfortunately the FORUM culture is dying, fortunately there are many more forums and I will for sure not pay for writing or reading articles i can find somewhere else too.
Sorry but thats a no go for me, even it its just 150.-Baht per month
have a great time and hopefully you are not soon here alone
cheers
mos
This is quite interesting. The "information is free" mentality became dominant quite a long time ago. The reality is, information isn't free unless YOU are the product. In other words, by provide "free" services such as email, social, etc, the dominant internet companies surveil
suckers you 24 hours a day and sell the information they glean (which is far more extensive than you can imagine.) For example, AI systems can recognise your emotional state and deploy advertising and subtle "nudge" mechanisms to get you to stay longer in an app, on a website, or pursuade you to buy. Freewill is mistakenly thought of as immutable. It isn't. See how much time you spend on FB or YT shorts or Tik Tok or any other site designed to capture your attention.
As a previous poster noted, forum culture is alive and well in many specialized areas. Why is that? First, there's the community interaction. GTR is good example since many members know each other off-line, in the real world! For those of us in Thailand for the long haul, that's a big plus. Second, information placed on a forum is held for forum members to look up in the future. Over time forums become repositories of vast amounts of knowledge and know-how. Just within the motorcycling community there are any number of forums dedicated to bike brands, specific bikes, custom work, racing, etc., etc.. They are founts of quality advice and battle worn experience. Third, and not least, forums cost money to run in terms of server hosting, backup, and hundreds/thousands of hours to configure, update, patch, occasionally move, let alone moderate. We're damn lucky to have GTR. It costs a tiny amount relative to everything else.
Forum culture is very much alive and well, Mos, particularly on GTR. You might be alone. We're not.
