Saïd Amin

Mr. Saïd Amin!

Saïd agha, congratulations on buying JJJ's shares and becoming the sole owner of iranian.com!  You must be rich!

I see that you're asking for suggestions and stating:

 What will change, by year’s end, is an improved platform with robust tools that further empower us to share, discover, discuss, moderate and tap into the pulse of Iranian communities worldwide.

Well!  Isn't that nice!  Just so you know, some of us myself included, are immune to these type of language and can decode it easily!  Please review this blog and see how the "Real Estate double speak" was decoded! Also please visit Language Decoder Part II!

So when you say "improved platform with robust tools" we understand you really mean "different colors and fonts"!

To be honest with you the only change that will be considered improvement will be  "comment control" for users.  If you can deliver that to us (something that JJJ promised but never delivered) more power to you and thank you.  If not, then same old same old!

Jackasses and Trolls should not be allowed to come into people's hard worked blogs and contributions and pollute it with their nonesense with impunity just "because they can"!  Everywhere else in the blogsphere this is a done deal except here!

Anyway, good luck and others may jump and say things about freedom of speech and tear their collars apart!  I may or may not respond but my suggestion and request for you will remain the same.  I can provide more links about this "comment control" discussions on iranian.com if you're interested.  For now I'd be interested to know if you have such a plan? 

Everything is sacred

Under 40s?

How can the site attract under 40 year olds? I think that will help with a reduction of anger and hatred. 

Let me welcome you again

And wish you luck which I am sure is much needed .... 

: ) 

Mr. Amin!

Welcome and lets move on.Best wishes for the promotion of unity, tolerance,respect and brotherhood among all Iranians,especially between the members on this site.I would like to have a change on the motto of this site, let it beEverything is sacred! I mean everybody should share what they believe is the best without attacking or looking down at other ideas.Cheers!

Dear Said

My best wishes.

خیر مقدم وخوش آمدید

 لطفآ طی فرمانی عفو عمومی اعلام کرده تا همه اعضای قدیمی به این سایت بازگردند. 

 برای آن کسانی که قهر کرده اند وازاین سایت رفته اند هم لطفآ ایمیل بفرستید و خواهش کنید که دوباره این سایت را در نظر بگیرند.  

با تشکر فراوان 

Mr. Amin

Some people here talk like they have known you for ages. Maybe they do, but Sorry, I don't know who you are. I have been an IC reader and every once in a while commenter for god knows how long now, but unlike all these folks who are congatulating you left and right as if they have known you all their lives, I have no idea about you or your previous association with IC.

I don't mean to be rude. So Please forgive me for being so blunt about this. But IC in spite of it's shortcomings, is most likely the only forum out there that truely follows it's "Nothing's Sacred" motto. That makes this site very unique and important to most of us. So as an avid reader of IC, I think it would be fair for me, along with everyone else on this site, to ask the million dollar question: what will become of our IC now that is "under new management"? What changes, if any will take place as the result of this Acquisition/transition?

So for all of us readers, commenters, observers, radicals, pcifists, etc.  on this site please give us some background about yourself, your vision for IC and any changes we may see on this site in the future.

Thank you in advance and wish you luck in your new endeavor!

Congratulations and Best of luck

Dear Said,

Congratulations on the purchase of the Iranian.com.

Moderating the IC will be a tough, and at times a thankless, job. I wish you success and best of luck. What has made IC "work" is JJ’s amazing honesty and integrity. Despite the fact that many of us have great differences with JJ’s politics (and sometimes with his judgments and decisions), almost all of the decent main posters respect his integrity and fairness.

So, basically be fair or try to be fair to the best of your abilities. Once the main contributors reach the judgment that you are honest and fair, then it will be peachy and easy.

Best of luck,

Masoud

سعید عزیز:

Daneshjoo

کاری
که جهانشاه شروع کردند و ادامه دادند بسیار با ارزش و پردرد سر ولی ثمربحش ست.  شما اینرا آگاهانه   پذیرفته اید و این نشان می دهد انگیزه اتان
قویست و ازتوانایی خود با خبرید. امید که کارها طبق دلخواهتان پیش برود.  

Regarding blocked people

Dear P_J, you are right about some people. However many blocked people are not psychos and are generally good people. My hope is they are allowed back. Then if someone goes psycho they could be blocked.

Greetings Mr. Amin, and welcome to IC!

I would like to congratulate you on your choice for acquiring IC, where we exchange opinion and sometimes let our frustrations out.

I also believe that JJ did a phenomenal job in keeping this site going for as long as he did, and I hope you do too.

I also would like to voice my opinion regarding the blocking of some of the contributors.   We obviously have some psychos that should not even be allowed the first time, but overwhelming majority of bloggers are descent and learned individuals, in my humble opinion.

Again CONGRATULATIONS and GOOD LUCK!   

Helloooo, We Are Persians!

Best of luck Said, and we will have fun, or die trying!

Nobody is scared, or was it nothing is sacred!

Hello & Goodby!

Sorry to say that this site is losing its momentum daily & soon we all will read your farewell message! Unless & unless something major is done quickly, like  by closing this commentator's account first! And that is not joke but a sincere request! Please do! Thanks & Goodby to all!

Dear Said

I guess by now you got more than your share of suggestions! You must be very patient to read them. Anyway I will give you my opinion rather than suggestions. I have been on IC for years as VPK. Before that I used other names and before that I posted as anonymous. 

This site has been going down for some time. In my opinion it is due to the following reasons:

• Over zealous banning of members. There is not a week that someone new is not banned. Banning should be a last resort not a routine practice. The standard is: one person baits another one; the other takes the bait and goes off with an insult; the person taking the bait gets banned. In addition often the person doing the bait is also banned. One example is Mash Ghassem and SamSam.
• There are some who monopolize all discussions; push out others and scream so loud nobody else is heard. I am not sure what the cure it but after a while people get sick of being insulted and called "IRI agent"; "Zionist" or whatever the insult is. So they just lose interest and move on. It seems like people are taking lessons from the "Sacha Cohen"; not my idea of a civil or decent person.
• There is a lot of rehashing of old grievances. How many times do we need to read about Dr Mossadegh? How many empty declarations from MEK? It will be good to have some topics that are relevant today.

These are just my opinions and others may not agree. I don't know what the solution is or whether other people even agree with me. You are the administrator now so I guess you have to decide. Best of luck to you. VPK

سعید آقا کیست؟

وقتی نظر های دوستان رو یخورده خوندم متوجه شدم که برخی کم و بیش با شما آشنایی دارند

چرا من ندارم؟

برای کشف این مسئله مراجعه کردم به شناسنامه شما در همین سایت

خوندم

1 year 15 weeks

ولی دیگر هیچ نشانی ...مطلبی...عکسی...هیچی دیگه پیدا نکردم

نتیجه اخلاقی آقا سعید باید آدم ساکتی باشه

کسی که یک سال و 15 هفته هیچی نگه...و ننویسه کمتر پیدا میشه

با آرزو های خوب

مطرب رسمی سایت

شیرین

این لقب رو خودم بخودم دادم

You got it right....

I am glad to see you used the term "community" because that is exactly right; a cyber community, but still a community.

We have been scattered around the globe, which is good, becaue everything we learn from other cultures will enrich our own culture, and go towards creating a better community for all Iranians, no matter where they live.

Peace,

M. Alireza

Welcome

I agree with Jason in everything he said. I know you will want to give this place your own touch and I hope you will enjoy it. 

Jenab Saïd Amin

Thank you for your Hello Note. You are doing great. All-Iranians are sure that due to your good hard work and under your wise and caring management the Iranian.com in near future will become such a precious treasure that even you will hesitate to sell it out!

please use the good features of facebook and

hire some smart people who know how to get around annoying features of facebook. It would be nice to still have the article section which would be the space where the future editor will use her judgement (or his, I used her since Nazy jan was mentioned by Jahanshah), to select articles and feature them.

The blog section would become something between the present blog section that we have and a personal facebook. Each reader would see first and foremost (featured) blogs written by their favorite authors. There should still be a limit on number of blogs and posting since it is not ideal when in facebook some people post too many stories a day.  We would wish our facebook friends could prioritize which one of their 20/30/40 posts a day were more important for us to read.

Point is if we can have the new IC to keep good aspects of present IC and adopt those convenient ones of facebook (such as ease of post , etc) then that would be ideal.

Welcome

Welcome and I hope that you are going to make this place more exciting.  

Wish you well ...

for  future.

For the last 17 years,

  I have read this site and commented on issues once in a while ...The previous editor (JJ) was truly a gem!  He created a platform where everyone , regardless of his belief, could freely express himself . He was a liberal and tolerant individual who  showed impartiality and fairness . In otherwords, he followed the principles of journalistic ethics .

  I am hoping that IC will continue to be a democratic medium. I wish you the best Mr. Said Amin.

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Thank you for the introduction! Looking forward to the new platform or new format!

Good luck!

Yolanda

Future belly dancer in Kafeh Molan Rouj (approximately 3012-3018 AD)

P.S. Now I know this is a jaw-dropping transaction literally! Hopefully nobody's jaw got dislocated!

Welcome Home

Saiid Jaan.

Could not think of any better person than you to lead Iranian.com to the next level.  Knowing how creative and humble you are, the site is in good hands, best wishes, Hossein Hosseini

Welcome - await your launch blog.

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Personal touch

This is surely a good start, being in touch on a personal base with rest of us would be like having the manager on the sale floor!!

I wear an Omega watch

JJ actually put a smiley face in his sales proposal?!!!

He's really addicted to that symbol. Perhaps he can get some treatment for the condition down in South America. Medical care is pretty cheap there.

Welcome Saïd

I wish you success in this venture and hope IC continues on its improvement path under the new management/editorship. I am glad that JJ has sold the site to someone with as much affection for the site as himself.

Good luck

divaneh

Current belly dancer in Kafeh Molan Rouj

Mr. Said congratulations or condolences! It's too early to tell!

We should wait a year or so before extending that to you until you have had ample chances in dealing with the most high-maintenance group of folks you could ever gather in one place, yours truly included!

One thing you are not going to have a shortage of is the abundance of suggestions by different people telling you how to conduct your business and run your operations regarding IC! Advice is always good but too much of it can become counter-productive!

But, as you are gathering your thoughts and strategizing for the future of IC please bear in mind and consider that any high class joint reserves some back rooms where its rowdy customers can gather around and engage in aragh khori, khanoom bazi, ghomar bazi, kicking each others @$$, and having fun, as long as, it stays in the back rooms and doesn't cause for the cops to show up!

With that thought, I wish you a great start and an easy road to a successful future for IC!

Respectfully,

Fanoos,

Ex-belly dancer in Kafeh Molan Rouj, 1960-1968.

Welcome

Said Amin: Welcome. My background is in the Arts. From that perspective, watching Iranians on Iranian.com get into frequent fist-fights and squabbles has always been amusing, if not disheartening. "Why can't they focus on their strengths?"

Strengths vs. Flaws: I do hope the new leadership affords new horizons for Iranians to celebrate the profundity of their heritage. Because, just as the Italians look nuts when they're in their world of politics (Berlusconi, case in point) yet - tens and hundreds of millions go to Italy as pilgrims of Art, Design and the celebration of the human soul. My little corner is Hafez - because it really tickles me to know that in the world of mysticism and spirituality - our culture's literature and poetry is like the "Georgio Armani" or "Da Vinci" of the fashion and design world. I love that, it's both very empowering and  humbling.

Again, I hope the site would enable us to focus at least as much on our incredible heritage, as on our flawed political strength. 

Welcome, again Said -  And thank you Jahanshah for keeping this going and alive for some 17 years.

Afsaneh Mirfendereski