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Originally Posted by dogsbody70
yes but JAPAN/ASIA still limits to those areas?
but elsewhere is not allowed? why?
There are many discussions about Japan oriented subjects
you truly wish to restrict this wonderful forum and the wealth of members from around the world.
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You have to also consider- the only people who would benefit from extraneous discussion posts about other countries would be the posters in those threads. I'm sure Russia is lovely and fascinating and all that; but it's not what I come -here- to read about. And it's not what drift-in-drift-out or new users are looking for either. You google 'Japan', the forum pops up and at present, much of the relevant information people are looking for about Japan is readily visible and accessible- the language help, the travel info, the daily life info and the basic culture questions. And they are ~consistently~ there. It's part of what makes JF a valuable internet resource. On a massive forum like this, it's no good saying 'oh, but it's there if you just go here and skip back 30 pages or so', because the n00bs don't know that. Honestly, if the first time i'd logged on and it had been a solid front page of Hungarian dining traditions, gamer chat and "LOL, a dog in a wig!" posts, I would have backed out quite quickly assuming no one knew anything useful. And I'd have missed out.
So it's kind of a matter of 'time and a place' constraint. I mean, personally, I've got a lot of things I talk about on the internet, but it's kind of niche topics. Rambling about classic British children's literature of the early 1900's or the evolution of cheese-producing societies here is not really 'inclusive' and it pretty much excludes Japan by definition. Worthy of discussion, sure, in someone's opinion it's not spam, but this isn't the place for it and you aren't the people for it either. So I'd find other communities for that. If someone wants to PM me or ask me about it in the chat thread here; awesome. I'd have a good natter, but I'm not going to make a thread about it, because it's inappropriate even though it isn't offensive.