Going wrong with Myanmar Blogger Society

Being interested in social web site, I go around several Myanmar social network site. Nyi Lynn Seck is one of my favorite blogger due to his excellent write-up and original information. I sometime cited his blog posts. Recently he created a NING network called Myanmar Blogger Society.

This is very typical Myanmar society and quite a number of them live in Myanmar. Most of blogger are so-called pro-democracy. Interestingly they don't understand what it is nor practice in the society. There are so much of for-show and let-us-follow-somebody on Myanmar Blogger Society. Unity does not mean one.

I joined Myanmar Blogger Society with my wrong accusation that Google Ad should be removed from the main page. After realizing that it is not free as point out by three members, I apologized my wrong accusation. Only recently I knew that our network creator pay $42.8/month for this NING web service.

Myanmar Blogger Society has trouble in setting rule regarding creating a group. Basically the conflict come from opposing new group by the existing group. Here I even encourage nearly identical group. The only things is admin may request for proper group name. But the group creator can ignore the suggestion.

One member is also proposing a member must have a blog. The society like the idea and network creator defines that a blogger must have over 30 blog posts. Basically this concept come out of proud that "I am a blogger, you are not". In fact, creating a blog is one click in blogspot and wordpress. Why not they teach a new comer to create a new blog. The society should be for the people who interested in blogging, not what they are made of.

My first discuss there was a proposal for deleting Male Blogger group. It is the largest mamber group created by the network creator. There is no discussion in the group and I also don't see any topic for the group just to say we are male to insult female bloggers. My discussion topic was deleted soon after posted without discussion.

Recently Okisan was banned from Myanmar Blogger Society. Mark explained the reason as follow:

က်ေနာ္ Okisan ကို ban လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကစည္းမ်ဥ္းေတြကို မလိုက္နာတာေၾကာင့္ရယ္။ ဖြလြန္းတာေၾကာင့္ရယ္ပါ။ ေနာက္ဆံုး က်ေနာ္ေတြ႕လိုက္ရတာကေတာ့ သူအေၾကာင္ရိုက္ျပီးဝယ္ထားတဲ့ zawgyi.org ဆိုတာကို "zawgyi.org domain name on auction" ဆိုတဲ့နာမည္ႏွင့္ ေဒၚလာတစ္ေထာင္ျဖင့္ ေရာင္းရန္ဆိုျပီး myanmaritpros မွာ လုပ္ထားတာကို လာေၾကာ္ျငာထားတာပါ။ က်ေနာ္ အကုန္ဖ်က္ပစ္လိုက္ပါျပီ။ ေနာက္ျပီး က်ေနာ္သူ႕ကိုအင္ဗိုက္လုပ္ထားတာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္က်ေနာ္ သူ႕ကို ဘန္းမယ္ေျပာထားတာၾကာပါျပီ။ အျခားသူေတြကို အဲလို လြယ္လြယ္ကူကူဘန္းမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ သူ႕အေၾကာင္းသိေတြမို႕လို႕ MBS မွာ အားလံုးအတြက္ အေႏွာက္အယွက္မျဖစ္ေစရန္အတြက္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ နားလည္ေပးမယ္လို႕ထင္ပါတယ္။

To me, my usual marketing blog post "zawgyi.org domain name on auction" (exactly there), is fine. At least it is relevant to the blogger who use Zawgyi font. I was really not convinced the reason for banning due to my blog post. Finally Okisan joined outsider community, Myanmar Society created by Steve (London).

Since Myanmar Blogger Society is working in Burmese ways, it will success but go wrong. If we generalize Myanmar society, democracy is a far away for those people.