ASTER:
I don't think they will discriminate in any way To add a country. Maybe they are busy with other stuff.
I don't care if it is Vietnam or any other country, at least start adding countries.
Unfortunately it almost has to be discrimination - this is a site of user generated content, essentially all they have to do is create the places in the database the information can be stored.
I haven't setup a database in years but I'm assuming its still easy enough to create a duplicate of something you have already created - then just change stuff that says "Thailand" to "Vietnam" - I'm over simplifying but not much.
They are "Gatekeeping" - that is exactly what this is.
Tsuliwaensis:
stop it already.
it is far more likely that the reason is money. look at all the stuff they added lately, it's all games and ranking systems, sorting out actors according to popularity and site members according to how much money they spend. they want to attract the kind of people who get addicted to things and are willing to spend money to feed their addiction.
so, yeah, they might also be homophobic racists, but the primary reason for that is because they're capitalists. in terms of evil it makes no difference, but in terms of strategy it does.
so, the question is: how can we make them interested in adding Vietnam to the database when there's no money in it for them?
so far, obviously, the answer is: we can't. otherwise it would be done already.so, does anyone have an idea how we can change that?
I'd like to believe that but I don't see evidence of that.
From my observations over the past 5 years the female demographic of BL fans is one of the most exploited fan bases in all of global media.
They have all of the BL fans here and have made no efforts to monetize what many, many others have already made millions off of.
there are some really good non-BL content coming out of Vietnam as well,kajirae:
Yes, like Mac Biet (Dreamy Eyes available on Netflix US), The Rebel (1st Viet martial arts), Hai Phuong (Furie in international), Co Ba Saigon, the Housemaid & so on. Plus, there is an upcoming HBO drama where most of the cast are Vietnamese descents with Robert Downey Jr.
Thingnguyen62:
Yes, like Mac Biet (Dreamy Eyes available on Netflix US), The Rebel (1st Viet martial arts), Hai Phuong (Furie in international), Co Ba Saigon, the Housemaid & so on. Plus, there is an upcoming HBO drama where most of the cast are Vietnamese descents with Robert Downey Jr.
Thanks for that. I'll try to remember when I next have Netflix available.
newbiefan:
Thanks for that. I'll try to remember when I next have Netflix available.
No prob. I just remember the Paper tigers which is directed independently by a US Vietnamese Director. Despite being distributed in the US, it is a dedication to Bruce Lee's hometown. The Vietnamese actor, Andy Lee, is feature in the movie and he was in Shang Chi & the legend of the Ten Rings
But according to admin the last time I read, they prefer to have a database that is complete with a minimum number of countries, instead of a half-ass complete database but with every Asian countries listed.TimiZero:
I have said this before and will say it again. If we wait for the current database to be complete (whatever that means) before adding another country, there will never be more countries added. The database can never become complete if they keep making dramas.
Either they are saying this the wrong way, or they are just outright saying they don't want to add more countries, not sure which is true. Their statement at best is ambiguous and doesn't tell us how this can be fixed.
If there really are large gaps in the database, which aren't apparent to me or others, why not publicly push to get those fixed instead of just saying "it's not complete" and leaving everyone in the dark as to what "complete" means? The admin could say "we are lacking Chinese dramas from 2001-2003 involving company [name] can users please submit dramas from this company. Or something like that.
