Shanghai Stuff Etiquette
Shanghai Stuff Etiquette
With a population of 20 million, and well over 100,000 foreigners,
Shanghai is one of the most populated and international cities in all
of China. Shanghai Stuff is this city’s premier social networking tool
and aims to help its members, both locals and expatriates, connect
with each other.
Ground Rules
Members are encouraged to communicate with each other, but be nice!
Here are a few ground rules for participation in Shanghai Stuff.
Respect the privacy of others. Don’t post personal information about
another member, or information that could compromise another member’s
reputation or safety. If you must gossip, keep it private.
Be civil. You may disagree with others, but don’t forget your
manners. Most likely you wouldn’t show hostility in person, so
don’t do it online either. Be respectful and don’t purposely
upset another member.
Keep your posts relevant. If someone starts a discussion about one
topic and you steer it toward another, that’s known as “hijacking,”
and it’s rude. If you must go off-topic in a discussion, wait until
others have made a few relevant replies first.
Don’t abuse the newbies. It may be tempting, but remember you were new
once, and you made friends with people who welcomed you. Instead of
intimidating or making fun of new members, help them feel at home on
Shanghai Stuff.
Be yourself. Don’t pretend to be someone else by creating multiple
accounts or using a photo of someone else. You’re beautiful just
the way you are. If you misrepresent yourself and use false
information, you’re a big fat liar.
Don’t spam. Use the Events section to promote your event. Use the
Classifieds if you have something to sell. Consider purchasing ad
space. Do not use Blogs, Groups, comments or anything else. Spamming
is grounds for immediate account suspension.
We also have a couple rules that we need to enforce to appease the local
Net Nanny. No nude photos. No politically sensitive content.
Thanks for your understanding and helping to keep Shanghai Stuff
accessible.
Tips
Keeping these tips in mind may improve your experience on Shanghai Stuff
and save someone else’s sanity.
Report an issue! You may not like ratting someone out,
but remember you are helping the community by reporting the bad
people who harass or spam others. The worst thing you can do is stoop
to their level and retaliate, which never helps a situation. Report
them instead.
Try to be forgiving. If you’ve filed a complaint about another
member, please understand that we generally give a warning on a first
offense and remind the member of our ground rules. Immediate
suspensions however do happen in more serious cases.
Configure your privacy settings. If you want, you can moderate
comments on your content, or have your profile viewable only to
friends.
Check the category. When you start a new discussion or post a
classified ad, make sure you’re posting in the right place.
Type in caps sparingly. TYPING LIKE THIS is considered shouting, and
to many it’s just as annoying as shouting in real life.
Encourage new members to participate. It’s great that you’ve made
friends here. Help new members and lurkers do the same!
Comment
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Comment by Brett on June 8, 2010 at 7:25am -
I agree Paul. Things look positive! Do you, Lelong and OB mind messaging your numbers to me?
Unfortunately, I'm so busy...I'd love to have a chat with you guys.
Thanks!
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Comment by Paul on June 7, 2010 at 8:58pm -
I have checked all the comments. Nice to see that the ones leaving comments about this issue are... "the same guys as always". So I come to think... we may be trouble makers, but we DO care about the site, and here we are, debating about it. I don't see many new people here trying to debate, participate...
@Luca: at least nobody said... "it was so much better when CPR was here..." hahahaha
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Comment by Luca on June 5, 2010 at 7:29pm - Anyway.....stop kidding!....we need to fix SS next goal: to organize an official party in the SH stadium!! (.......yeah..I think that "venue" will be big enough for the 20.000 of us..)
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Comment by Luca on June 5, 2010 at 7:23pm
- @Shrocks: i vote for the ban!......ASM should ban all of them for non-active dudes!!
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Comment by Der Bayerische Clown on June 5, 2010 at 7:05pm - haha, you watch out now...
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Comment by Shanghairocks on June 5, 2010 at 7:05pm -
People who complain about so called 'old days' please buy a time machine and get back to 2008
or
ban 15000 members
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Comment by Shanghairocks on June 5, 2010 at 7:01pm
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@Yuppi, you are always in our so called clique. Welcome to the so called "grown up clique".
We just need another member to make something remarkable like the gang of four did (oops... political content )
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Comment by N on June 5, 2010 at 6:53pm -
Luca, you are back!!
sry, hijacking
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Comment by David on June 5, 2010 at 5:54pm -
I actually like the concept of different groups. I agree the language exchange ones are very confusing and unorganized, but Kim's group seems to do well. I think it might be more beneficial to feature the most active groups that are more active, so they're easier to find for new members and people with common interests. I hope ASM also agrees with this idea.
We've also had cooperation between groups in the past and the lines are blurred now. But, to make the site more useful and user friendly I think active groups should get more recognition and continue to promote their own events. Whereas SS events should be a time for people from all over the ranging spectrum of different groups to get together and meet.
Rather than continue to bicker about some percieved (maybe not even actual) disagreements between groups here. We should get people together from different groups and discuss what is best for Shanghai Stuff and it's members. There are many ways to improve the website and it's best to have as many different viewpoints as possible.
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Comment by 乐龙 on June 5, 2010 at 4:58pm -
Wow, guess I should shut up. But the comment from Brett >>>This tells me one thing: The SS clique care only about their own personal spotlight, and don't give a shit about the site. < need to be comment back.
What are you talking about, Brett? SHStuff is a social network! Sorry that the Networker don't follow always one personal idea about that. But don't you think that you so called 'SS cliques' are very social? Just remember last BBQ. It was not a official SHStuff BBQ. But damm, it was a great daytime event with many many ppl. also many new members or members who didn't show up for long time.
If I take you comment as SHStuff rules (I don't do it ;-) I should shut down SEG or rename it in SHStuff Event Group? And befor I post something I should always ask one of the moderators if we can do it and if they can promote it. I guess that is not what someone here want.
But - I think there is one mutch bigger problem. There are just to many groups with one and the same topic and most of them are very silent. How many english or chinese corners do we have? The most active one is for shure SEG I guess. Meeting every week and many many ppl attend and speak all kind of languages. Haha. Ok, we don't want to be a language group. But maybe you can bring all the other group owners together and build a real good language group. just as an example. There is already a book group ... not active. So I found my own group. If I find out after while that nobody use it ... I will delet it, for sure.
Don't blame the cliques on SH. The most are very open to new members. But if the members are not active or just to shy ... what should we do? Any good suggestion?
@all: because many ppl asked me already. I am not Moderator of SHStuff and not member of ASM. I don't get money (same as the moderators) for doing the SEG or other groups. I just do it for the same reason like all others... just for fun.
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