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Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Dear Mami on June 24, 2018, 05:00:07 PM

Title: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Dear Mami on June 24, 2018, 05:00:07 PM: I've looked at the old nipate for a few weeks and it seems to me the majority of those active guys just left.
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Omollo on June 24, 2018, 07:41:07 PM: The result of a heavily censored site in the days of Twitter, telegram, FB etc.

RVHH gained excessive influence over the site. It identified as a Ruto site. I think it will follow RCB in to the grave.

I could list their mistakes but I would be helping a site I prefer to see dead.
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Kim Jong-Un's Pajama Pants on June 24, 2018, 08:13:33 PM: For an old school forum to survive in today�s world of social media it has to have some use beyond just prolific trolling. When you visit, you kind of expect to pick up at a minimum some factual information or a viewpoint that cannot be squeezed into 140 characters.
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Globalcitizen12 on June 24, 2018, 08:42:30 PM: Most of the guys relocated to Kenya.mthey were in their late 50s or early and so they have retired home
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Omollo on June 25, 2018, 11:07:38 AM: Quote from: Globalcitizen12 on June 24, 2018, 08:42:30 PM
Most of the guys relocated to Kenya.mthey were in their late 50s or early and so they have retired home
There is internet in Kenya and it is getting cheaper.
If they were that old then it follows they would be "conservative" and not join the new media (Twitter, FB etc)

These sites doubled as news sites in a period when Moi had clamped down on the media. It follows that with all the media available in Kenya now online (FM stations, WhatsApp, Telegram, Periscope, ....) the news part is gone. It leaves political debate (and many still come around to read Pundit lying to them). TOP has become a Jubilee zone as seen by expulsion of anybody seen to be against Jubilee. As we move into the Uhuru Succession, it will become URP while Kikuyus may find refuge at .org even if only because we will tend to be "balanced" by attacking both URP and TNA
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Dear Mami on June 25, 2018, 02:41:38 PM: I meant guys who were still posting just a few months ago. Theyve just vanished.
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Omollo on June 25, 2018, 03:18:36 PM: Quote from: Kadame9 on June 25, 2018, 02:41:38 PM
I meant guys who were still posting just a few months ago. Theyve just vanished.
They come around during elections or when there is a crisis.
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Globalcitizen12 on June 25, 2018, 05:06:40 PM: They are around most are losers..ie some are 55 year olds with no stable job and young kids so that why they go offline..the others are losers who shuttle between diaspora and Kenya
Title: Re: .com old timers have vanished
Post by: Globalcitizen12 on June 25, 2018, 05:07:07 PM: I meet some of these guys and they do not realize I know them online