[The Jade]

Having seen the forum change in the past couple of years, here are my observations:

We want to know what kind of subjects, activities, etc would get you involved in participating more actively.

If this is to be FPM's official forum, why don't we have exclusive news from FPM's staff (cadres, MPs, etc).

By exclusive news, I mean interviews with MPs, leaders, etc.
A place where we could ask our MPs some questions and get answers from them.

What are the strong elements and the weaknesses of the forum in its actual form?

There are many strong elements in the forum, some of them related to the very organized team and the faithful members who keep this forum alive.

But I'll concentrate on the weaknesses here:

1) One of the main weaknesses of this forum is the lack of independant or rather anti-FPM voices. (there are a few, bit a time came where there were almost as many anti-FPM than pro-FPM people).

Some of the threads turn to cheerleading, which don't get us anywhere.

2) The fact that some threads with no added value are allowed to be opened and others that might be interesting, or critical of the FPM would not be allowed to see the light of day

3) The fact that some members are still kicked out depending on the humor of the Admins.

4) The fact that some rules are broken by the administration and nothing is done about it, but when a regular member does it he gets a warning

5) The fact that any opposing voice is quickly attacked by the members. And I know that the administration has nothing to do with it, but I think that it has to show the good example and lead the way by allowing people to elaborate on the ideas and organizing a good way to counter the critics.

For our members who became inactive, what is it that you lack to start participating again? Are you disabused from Lebanese politics, this forum, both? Please share your insights.

I'm not inactive now since it's elections time.

But when nothing was going on, the forum became so one-sided, so critical of opposing voices that it became a cheerleading forum, which is nothing related to FPM's teachings

For visitors, what could we do for them so they register and get them involved? By the way, you would be amazed by the number of recurring visitors who never registered.

Can't say a thing here

For our recent and regular members, why aren’t there a greater number of initiatives? The moderation’s policy is set to be very loose; did it have a pervert effect instead of its intended aim?

Because most of the time initiatives have been killed.

For example, we've been asking for more than 2 years now to have an interview with a cadre or an MP. And when we did that, the administration told us that it's either not the time or that it's taking care of it.

And since I was a member I saw 2 interviews one with Ziad Abs and another with Ghassan Mkheiber I think.

The forum is not using its full potential to get new things done.
It could for example propose for some members to gather all the questions that we need to ask for the MP and go to the MP's office, ask the questions and come back and post them on the website.

I think that the forum administration should start to delegate stuff to their members.

Always remember that no matter how much us as a staff put efforts, we have no chance without your cooperation. The forum's level is intimately related to the members' commitment. If you don’t submit threads, ideas, feedback, etc., then nothing would change. So please take this opportunity to share with us some constructive criticism and we are all ears to you.

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