I went away for couple of months and God dammit, it as turned into Nairaland.
Kilode tori OLOHUN. This forum was peaceful and entertaining with intelligent
topics, reasonable comments AND not lot of bashing.
Few minutes ago, i saw someone comparing paystack with kongapay, Jesu
How many times y’ll wanna compare these guys.
Where’s the admin when you need them.
Salam maleku. Welcome back enlightened one. Where you LOST?
This doesn’t mean what you think it means.
This morning is interesting but they seem to be two different things but probably all connected.
Firstly, if you look at @mauri activities you think carefully of what a member is. I mean this is someone who - Went out of her/his way to hide identity, yet demanding startups release private data. Threatens to quit Radar, yet opens new threads and posts countless times. Demands others to be polite, yet dishes out insults verging on defamation constantly. Lectures people on professionalism, yet can’t spell better than a 10 yr old (blames it on the keyboard tho). The worse is that she/he acts as a victim, but genuinely fast becoming a faceless bully.
So here’s the question - is this the type of person we want around? And if not, does she/he not have a legitimate alternate view point to share (minus those typos.They are horrible - no one has a right to inflict that on anybody).
Then secondly, comes the topics itself. So @udemesamuel who of course is not a stranger here, decides to open yet another paystack vs. X thread. Surely he saw the pop up informing that there were other similar threads. But he chose to ignore it.
So here’s the question - for zero value topics, should Radar not have zero tolerance? Then how do you decide that quickly albeit subjectively, in a way which doesn’t discourage members.
The connected part is that we need a community Mgr. Badly.
Correct word > As-Salaam-Alaikum, Which means = Peace be unto you
A quick Google search will yield alot of result 
Busy running business
Last I checked, there’s a mute/block button somewhere:neutral_face:
So you mean to tell me that its a “sin” to pour out my concern
out about a community am part of. Don’t play yourself bro
What do you expect?
This community is filled with Nigerians with typical Nigerian attitude. I can’t count how many times I’ve struck the reply button but gave up mid way for fear of being bashed by someone who (is obviously full of sh*t) lacks experience and is just here to gain popularity.
Most (if not all) topics on here loose value midway due to unnecessary personal conversations and replies. You need to understand that nobody gives a sh*t about your personal life or experience if it does not contribute +vely to the topic in view.
To cut the long response short, there are etiquettes guiding community activities and it would save our dear radar a great deal if community members read about them:
And for anyone who does not have time to read all that, you need to have at the back of your mind that this community is here to stay and in 10years time when you’re probably what you want to be in the tech industry (successful?) - would you be proud of your posts on here?
We are currently at 3.1k users (at the time of this response) and the community is gradually getting out of hand. I plead with the Administrators to enforce discipline on this community with rules based on the common wrong activities of some members (Insults, etc)
I can assure you that there are a lot of users on here that just don’t want to be part of all this drama.
I vote for quick actions and no road map response(s) please. :-(
Haaaa bros not what I meant and not at you in no ways… Please I have great respect for my elders. I actually mean our aunty who has decided to turn here to Nairaland 
This is on the money. You can’t expect blue to emerge from a congregation of green.
That depends on if you want an open community or a clique. If you have a diverse set of people, you’ll get diverse thoughts & opinions (informed or not).
So long as the guidelines are not violated, I don’t think anyone should be flagged because some people do not share his/her views. I’m saying this as someone who does not agree with most of @mauri has had to say.
I don’t envy whoever gets this job. How do you enforce decorum & sanity without appearing dictatorial, & coming off as lacking objectivity?
How do you decide what is/has zero value?
This is the money question, @PapaOlabode.
Can a mod/cabal person kick this “mauri” creature out of here, please?
This might be subjective - but then some will be obvious. The ‘PayStack vs X’ 100th thread has zero value. Subsequent threads asking the same question don’t add to the conversation. They should instead be taken down and whoever’s raising the new question, should be provided links to earlier threads (in case they missed it).
Open community doesn’t mean alternate viewpoints are not tolerated. But then it’s becoming obvious that a “member” can wreck havoc on the said community. Maybe even intentionally. If you look back at Mauri - it wasn’t clear to me what he/she was trying to achieve. Did she/have some good points - I would say yes. But in my opinion, an overall negative value add.
At the end of the day, a lot of people are reasonably busy with other things apart from Radar. So if it’s filled with sub-optimal junk - then surely doesn’t deserve much attention. The reason a community mgr (a.ka. the person @lordbanks must be working exceedingly hard to find. Even as I type right now) is so great, is that all this fluff can be whittled down and acted upon quickly. They will probably get it wrong sometimes, but should help in allowing for a sane place to have great conversations.
Nice arguments, @PapaOlabode.
On the issue of the now ubiquitous Paystack vs X threads, one has been started by someone from Paystack.
I understand that it might be intended as a parody, but then, a thread is a thread, right?. 
It’s indeed a parody. Again, if it were up to a comm mgr. he/she might choose to not find it funny - and take it down.
How come you guys are mad at @mauri and not @xolubi as well. This is plane bias.
Note: I’m not in anyway associated with him/her.
Umm… What did @xolubi do, please?
I didn’t find it funny at all
If this were the case, close to half of people on Radar would have been flagged.
No one is stating you shouldn’t have an opposing viewpoint or criticize, so that’s not the problem.
The problem lies in the intent (whether supporting or opposing).
You can be honest and respectful/impartial. And you can be honest and malicious. There’s a big difference. Let’s be wary of users who cloud their malicious intent with “honesty”. It’s very easy for a user to do this in an “open community”.
Bottom line is to treat human beings the way you would like to be treated regardless of their views. Is it really that hard to ask from the community? And if it is, then we have a big problem. So ditto to what @PapaOlabode has said, we need an active community manager/mod/admin to keep things in check.
Intent is not easy to discern, unless you read minds. Do you?
Please give examples of this honesty mixed with malice you speak about; that would help in understanding the riddle.
Isn’t this the essence of letting people have their say, so long as it’s within the confines afforded by the guidelines?
I’m all for strict adherence to the guidelines, as @lordbanks is well aware of.
I think the guidelines are the rules that govern discourse & conduct on here, not what various people feel or imply about what some other people said/have to say.
Wow, you guys really don’t like this @mauri girl.
I actually believe its self destructing policing what people say or don’t on forums and banning people who don’t comply. You start to gain a reputation. Ultimately, users determine the product. There is no monopoly of perspectives. See how long it took Instagram to decide on policing user comments and even that is still in testing.
And yes I’ve seen harsher and subtle demeaning comments here get passed on as “constructive criticism.”