I have a question for Administrator. - Political Forum

AnyFree · 07-15-2007, 10:52 AM

Hello !
This forum is a nice site I think. BTW, I have a question for administrator.
Below Pic is our forum's banner Pic, you know. So, what is meaning that ?
You can see America, EU, China, India and Russia, last UN flag.
What is meaning them ? And why We have to see only 4 countries flag ?
I'd like to know why.

Thanks.

Best Regards.

From S.Korea.

AnyFree · 07-15-2007, 09:33 PM

Thank you very much for your kindly explanation.
I can agree with you but India is not a powerful country I think.

Im not Janpanese, the powerful countries of Asia is just Japan than China, India.

However, I can't see Japan flag at ur banner pic.
Im afraid but, India is still a very poor countries in Asia. And other countries such as Amierica, EU, China, Russia ! yes, right ! they are a powerful countries exactly.

Best Regards.

Inan’Ta · 07-15-2007, 10:01 PM

I quick comment about the “home country flag” thing. There's a list of countries which appear and “Somaliland is listed as a country. Somaliland isn’t a country, its part of Somalia.

Could you be kind enough to remove it?

iTaliAN_ICe · 07-15-2007, 11:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Administrator

Hi, Anyfree. Thank you for the compliment. It's cool to have some South Korean representation here.

The flags represent the largest and most powerful influential countries in the world. The US, the countries in the European Union, China, India and Russia. It's the forums symbol for showing that we are an international political forum, looking for discussions on international politics. Due to the very fact that the forum is written in English, that automatically pre-disposes the forum to have a large American presence. Nonetheless, we also do have Europeans, Russians, Africans, Middle Easterners, Asians and people from Central and South America. We try to encourage more international participation wherever possible.

People have complained a bit before that we should maybe put in flags of regional organizations such as ASEAN, the African Union, the Arab League and Mercusor, since that would represent other countries. That was tried but the flag design did not come out too well.

I found the flags to be too small. Just for your information, we are just calling the forum "Political Forum", it's much more convenient than the domain name "Politics Forum Political World."

One banner was submitted which we have been trying to have professionally improved but we have run into problems along the way with that and we are still working on that.

Please bear in mind that this banner above is just a rough version and that's why we are trying to get it professionally improved.

Most registered members really cannot imagine the number of daily tasks I have to perform just to maintain the forum at its current level. So it does take me a while to complete projects to improve the forum.

Regards,
Admin

I'd be happy to offer what little photo-manipulating skills I have to try and speed up the process if you'd like.

Inan’Ta · 07-16-2007, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Administrator

I think that your request opens up a can of worms. Now this would have me play the judge as to who is a country and who is not. What about Taiwan or anyone else who asserts their national sovereignty but people disagree on that? I don't want to deny people their freedom of beliefs.

What I will do is just change "country" to just say "flag." I have to mess around with code to do that, and there's like a huge amount of code, so give me some time on that one.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Regards,
Admin

Internationally Somaliland is not a COUNTRY. It’s a state within Somalia, just like Puntland.

So you’re not deciding anything, but only listing legitimate countries.

I would personally hate to see my country divided…..But it’s your site you could do as you please.