How to attract more members from Arab nations ?

[Kompromat]

Selam.

We've been noting a good deal of activity in Turkish and Arab defence sections. Since the induction stream from Turkic region to PDF is pretty steady, our team would like to seek ideas on how to encourage more members from the Arab world to join up?

@JUBA @BLACKEAGLE @Arabian Legend @Full Moon @Yzd Khalifa @Bubblegum Crisis - tag others too pls.


Thanks.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

More topics on Arab countries will attract more Arab members. But we should have in mind not all know English and some others are not interested in politics or military.

 

[JonAsad]

Arabs not interested in anything non arab-

They are happy discussing their broblems in ME on their forums-

Language is also a barrier- most arabs prefer arabic-

 

[Jazzbot]

Having lived in Bahrain for years, I can say most of them just don't care. Those minority who cares, they always prefer to join Arabic forums instead of english ones.

 

[Kompromat]

I know about the language barrier, however things have changed with Arab expats and students. There should be some way of reaching that audience.

 

[BLACKEAGLE]

Arabs not interested in anything non arab-

They are happy discussing their broblems in ME on their forums-

Language is also a barrier- most arabs prefer arabic-

We have a lot of problems ourselves.

Having lived in Bahrain for years, I can say most of them just don't care. Those minority who cares, they always prefer to join Arabic forums instead of english ones.

They used to be before 2011, but now it's different, all you see in Twitter and Facebook is pictures of dead bodies or troubles. Life was fun before 2011.

 

[Full Moon]

It looks like Arabs are so fed up of politics and its innate problems. There is so much disappointment around them that they discuss serious topics insularly through Arabic.

Source: my two cents.

 

[Kompromat]

Pls stop off topic posts or await infractions.

 

[Donatello]

I think just leave it as it is. As the word gets out, they might join in. It could be cultural too. Many don't want to come online and discus defense/politics. Perhaps one way could be to have a dedicated soccer forum, i know Arabs are much into that, mostly European clubs.

 

[JonAsad]

The english speaking arab defence enthusiast are a rare breed- Mostly are western educated- thus communicate in english
We need a good patriotic totally local arab poster with relative arabised conservative views to have a difference of opinion-

The arabs we have seems to agree on everything between themselves- its like them vs us situation- we need them vs them- in short we need to attract arabs members fighting each other- -

 

[VelocuR]

Selam.

We've been noting a good deal of activity in Turkish and Arab defence sections. Since the induction stream from Turkic region to PDF is pretty steady, our team would like to seek ideas on how to encourage more members from the Arab world to join up?

@JUBA @BLACKEAGLE @Arabian Legend @Full Moon @Yzd Khalifa @Bubblegum Crisis - tag others too pls.


Thanks.

I think we can create Palestine Cause section forum to attract more Palestines and some Arab sympathizers since too many threads and updates regularly.

Arab countries issues, it is hard to figure out what they really want to discuss normally despite many are disunited and divided with no senses and no concepts of technology in military machines. Maybe we can create Sharwama sections, they will discuss more about foods or expensive cars like BMW they love to talk about?

 

[RazPaK]

We need better Iranian and Israeli trolls.

I'm saying the truth.

 

[illusion8]

With the amount of anti Israeli and anti Jewish posts and threads - I am afraid that PDF might get declared to be an anti Semitic site (whatever that is).

 

[Full Moon]

With the amount of anti Israeli and anti Jewish posts and threads - I am afraid that PDF might get declared to be an anti Semitic site (whatever that is).

And the porblem is?

 

[illusion8]

And the porblem is?

It might be a problem (or not) depending on what kind of audience or countries that a site wishes to cater to.