If they are copying your content, It is a Serious Copyright Infringement!shiv wrote:It's over a decade since I lurked on any Paki fora. When it comes to what is discussed on there I am well behind times. I don't know if PakDef died or not abut was fascinated to note that defence.pk carved for itself a "respectable" place in the internet world. Respectable and Paki coming in one sentence is a big thing. Not to be sneezed at. Its Alexa world rank is something like 12,000 compared to BR's 40,000
I spent some time lurking there and even looked at the registration page and wondered whether to register.
The forum is huge and some threads run into several hundred pages - but each page has very few posts. Maybe that helps in reloading a new ad every time the page is turned.
What defence.pk have done is to try and make visitors welcome - and that includes Indians. Of course my general sense is that you have to go into that forum with a "I'm a dhimmi but I'm friendly" attitude. Clearly many who have not managed this are banned and evidence of that exists. But the fact is that many Indians are quite content to maintain the "I will be dhimmi as long as you are friendly". The discussions themselves in the Indian defence part is passable. BRF in recent years has not been much better. But the reason I say a dhimmi attitude is needed is because many of the discussions in other parts of the forum are decidedly biased pro-Paki (well it IS a Pakcee forum after all) and carefully filtered to pass certain viewpoints over others - as desired by the mods. But the fact that Indians choose to stay on their in their "dark narrow hole" of Indian defence discussions is an indicator of their dhimmi attitude where their presence on the forum and what they get out of being on there far outweighs any other consideration, and the fat that the forum is heavily Paki biased does not seem to matter to many Indians who are quite content and happy to contribute positively on there. Of course there are a few who post on there and on here - often simultaneously. there is a comparison table of Nasr/Prahaar and some US missile that has been posted on this forum and defence.pk simutaneously. I will now look out for a helicopter comparison table to appear on defence.pk
Certainly the way the mods of that forum have taken it forward has probably been good for popularity and ad revenue. There is a downside I guess - and that is the inability of the forum to be as Paki as Pakhanastan - but that is a price they pay for welcoming all and sundry.
PS: even now (one minute ago) the maximum number of people viewing and the only one in 3 figures was the Indian defence section. WKKism comes in all sorts of ways
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