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Originally Posted by Black Page
By the way, dear Nono, you know what would be EXTREMELY USEFUL to all visitors, including new ones, almost regulars, expecially returning visitors after a long time?
A list of booking joints (be them named as "massage" or "KTV") kept updated every month, area by area. Not a big work: just a list of names with area where they are located.
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This is a good idea and i agree every bit of it. BUT! (hehehe...i talk about this briefly before)
Everytime the list is updated, i got penalized. The forum rules,no ads with contact info that comes in conflict with the forum's business that kept it running (i am saying this in my own words and understanding of the forum rules).
1st, the forum only allows 1 month time frame of editing ONE single post. Everytime the list is updated,i need to either quote the whole post (which by the way, is also against forum rules) or create a new post with the entire list,which is again against the forum rules becos i am not suppose to repeatedly post a single (or more) mongering place with its contact info and details more than once. (yes,i remember someone suggest posting a link but i am talking about updating something new in the same list,so links cant work)
2nd time,i try to do one post one booking joint with full details and yes,its one place one post like i did in for the Batam Food list,hehehe...
https://www.sbf-sg.social/showpost.php?p=14...ostcount=34430
...and then later compile it into a list,guess what. There are people who start complaining to the mods that I AM ADVERTISING for a certain booking place/s (and some eateries),hehehe....i think my friend's who were in the Balai threads (they frequent both Balai and Batam) even tells me people are saying i am an OKT or some kind of an agent too,hehehe....
I learned later that this forum is called SBF, its a community where when "if i do it,i'm damned,if i dont do it,i am still damned",hehehe...and
i later learned that very people who complained to the Mods were the very people who cloned themselves to start creating trouble in the thread too. (all of them were in my ignore list and one could easily tells them apart base just SOLELY on contribution)
My friends whom i knew in Batam keep teasing me whenever we met,becos base on those complainants in SBF ,i am now looking more like the owner of the WHOLE Batam island,hehehe...the WHOLE island belongs to nono1973,so every details that comes out from what i type in this thread on mongering places become an advertisement,hahaha....doesnt it seems like it?
So what can i do? I decide to just guide the newbie/s the basics i knew. The more in depth stuffs,they will have to figure out themselves as my summaries already "sort of" serve like a guideline. At least if they ever met up with those real agents (who plan to chop them,at the very least they know the right price to pay) or if there's some not-so-good experience,they will at least know how to use their own judgement base on what they have read on my guide/s and summaries. 40 summaries, base on average of 1 month one summary,its about 3.5 years of my own personal experiences,hehehe....
As of all the situations mentioned and encountered above, it is not easy updating the list according to what i would want it to be,hence i can only provide this below...
(which is why i notice google updates the batam map at about once a year,hehehe...)
...which i find its the BEST solution (for newbie ,of course). Go to Utama Hotel,walk ONE ROUND around its perimeter, whereby they will at least know how to find their way in way out ; at the same time they wont be able to MISS OUT what they are looking for if they stayed in Formosa hotel (base on my spoiler above).
As for the latest update, forumers will have to read the latest 50 to 70 pages of the thread. And for the more senior forumers (who has ever shared their part/s in the past) who are really looking for the more in-depth info, they will have to go through some readings and use forum PMs.
In conclusion, everyone plays the Batam game differently,my method/s may not be all suitable, and if the majority of the people reading this message wish for an updated cheonging list as like in the past,then the forum mods/admins may have to give me the "rights" to do so and start throwing those complainants PMsss on ME out (sound as if i truly own the whole of Batam). Otherwise, i will keeping those listings in my "wardrobe",hehehe...think of it this way, compiling info and putting them on a list is no easy task whereby it require lots of teamwork effort,imagine every post i made ,there's one complain (i dont know if they even contribute), and i have to remove it...how much time and effort would have gone wasted. And afterwhich, i am damned,hehehe...
Give you a few simple examples, remember Marine Live Sea food restaurant's ordeal,then there's a post i made on Bunga name card with the joint's phone number on it and then there's one whole list of Batam's booking joints name card. (i can see the mod making effort to be fair to everyone and thats no easy work either)
I am more of a Batam Info collector in this thread,so if things cannot work as i hope it would directly, i can only work around it,hehehe....save the right people many trouble/s as well as keeping the thread peaceful. Which i feel best fit in.
* truth to be told,i have in the past indeed thought of collecting a dollar or 2 from each of my Batam friends who joined me in my trips to pay the SBF forum for advertising the WHOLE of Batam. Anyway,its only a quick thought that cross my mind a very long time ago,hehehe...Batam belongs to Indonesia,NOT nono1973 (and i am a Singaporean).
