ThaiVisa

Moderators are very quick to ban people, especially if they disagree with your point of view.
They ban people for the slightest misdemeanours, but allow sexual deviants to post.
One poster even admits to getting his 14 year old stop daughter pregnant and to avoid any charges, he married the girls mother.
Its an on running site joke, that he now claims his step daughter is still a virgin and hes quite happy to have sex with the mother, with the step daughter and his son watching.

Questioning his behaviour will likely result in a ban for you... and not him

It was a decent and informative forum before it was sold to "The Nation". Now it's just a communist rag that does nothing but rail against conservatives and pushes false narratives. The forum I abandoned a long time ago due the bunch of bickering old and abusive Boomer sexpats that inhabit it, but have been keeping tabs on their news coverage - which has devolved into nonstop TDS with not much relevance to Thailand, and covid fear-porn.

No consistency with moderation and the worst moderation team of any site I've been on. Sorry, there is some consistency - the pathetic quality of moderation.

When George sold it to Dan I understand about 6 mods got large payouts with the promise of another share out if they stayed were it to be sold again. If that was the case you have to wonder why the likes of Scott, Rimmer, Mitisdead etc do their best to run it into the ground. Non stop deletions, suspensions and bans have left it a liberal echo chamber with no room for any opinions that go against their hyper woke prejudices. Funny thing is they don't know what is said via PM's, almost sub forums where the mods cannot look, if they could they would have a fit!

I've been a member of TV since the mid 2000, I very rarely visit now-a-days, they collect extreme amounts of information about you at each visit and are using every trick in the book, including many shady ones. I wish they could have stopped at collecting information for advertising purpose but they clearly don't. As an IT professional, I spent 2 days tracing what they collect, quite shocking. It was far beyond for advertising purpose and that raises the question: Why do they spend so much extra effort collecting your information? It's an effort that costs time and money. This website clearly uses the information to maximise profit in any way possible, not only advertising. Clear cookies after every visit ladies and gentlemen!

The website forum is owned by The Nation (nationmultimedia) which is a website/newspaper that is absolutely covered in annoying advertisements.
TV members are made of of bitter expats who bicker and have narrow-minded opinions.
The forum moderators have total control and appear to thrive on their power.

For example... rule 10: Do not comment on moderation publicly in the open forum; this includes individual actions, and specific or general policies and issues. This also includes posting an emoticon in response to a public notice made by a moderator.

I had issues with the Thai branch of a well known international company which has a good reputation internationally. I was given the wrong information by their support over the phone which cost me 14,000 baht. The proof would have been in the recording of the phone call but the company refused to accept responsibility. I posted this on Thai visa for advice on what to do and was banned. How do people, especially foreigners who don't speak Thai, get help in Thailand for these types of issues? How are people warned about pitfalls of dealing with businesses? Is Thaivisa only interested in protecting large companies and not in helping the average person?

I thought it was just me, but now that I see other reviews on sitejabber about the ThaiVisa forum, I can see these issues are widespread on the site.

I have had my posts deleted by these Mods countless times, and have been temporarily banned on three occasions, accused of "promoting conspiracy theories", when, in fact, all I was doing was expressing a personal opinion that was backed up with links to highly qualified and well vetted sources of data.

The site is also heavily bloated with advertising, to the point where it's almost impossible to navigate the forum on your smart phone, AND it loads a lot of cookies, and I don't think it's unreasonable to suspect there might even be malware lurking on the the site or through some of its' links... so be especially careful about that!

The thing is... This forum is actually an invaluable resource for Westerners new to Thailand since you can find answers to many questions about living in Thailand as an expat that just can't be found anywhere else. So, as a source of information it is invaluable!

HOWEVER, if you like to engage in discussing and INTELLIGENTLY debating controversial current events with other forum members, you need to think very carefully how you do that.

Just as has been mentioned by others here, many forum members are older and bitter expats who are "trolls" in the truest sense of the term.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize by the tone of their posts that they are very unhappy people who hate living here but only do so because of the low cost of living. Their posts or replies to posts are often mean-spirited, inflammatory and designed to elicit an emotional response. Resist the urge to interact with them or you will regret it!

These "trolls" seem to spend ALL of their time on the forum, with some them them literally having tens of thousands of posts/replies!

I get the impression that they spend their life sequestered in some shabby dark bedroom posting inflammatory things on ThaiVisa 24/7 for the sole purpose of antagonizing people who they will then attack in a hurtful and often vicious ways, as though they wish to make you feel as miserable as they must feel.

Thailand is such a remarkable place that it really makes you wonder how these people can be so unhappy that they resort to being such extreme trolls, but it is what it is, so tread carefully!

My view on using ThaiVisa:
1) Look to the forum to get answers to questions you have about living in Thailand, and nothing more.

2) Don't use ThaiVisa to search for information you seek; their search engine is horrible! Instead, Search on Google.com (i. E.: "your search term" "thaivisa.com")

3) Don't bother reading a thread beyond the first page. Trolls quickly derail a thread once there is more than one page.

4) ThaiVisa trolls are masterful at drawing you in to rebut their ridiculous comments and remarks. Resist the urge to do it. It will be a monumental waste of time, and will just make you depressed and have a dirty feeling from interacting with such sorry individuals.

5) If you do post your personal opinion on a controversial topic, be prepared for it to be deleted by a Moderator if he/she has a personal bias to what you have to say. If they really disagree with what you have to say, they will simply ban you for several weeks as punishment!

There are, of course, many fine people on the forum, and if you are careful, you can engage with them and have a very positive experience, but what I usually do, is discuss and debate with such people through private messaging, NOT the open forum, because if you do, it's only a matter of time before the trolls and the moderators swoop down and severely punish you!

I have 100 % confidence with dealing with guys! Superb all round professionals along with rapid results will deal again MANY THANKS!

A scurrilous anti Thai scandal sheet and click bait machine. ASEAN NOW formally known as THAIVISA might be considered a platform for anti Thai racism and bigotry.
It consistently promotes a view of stupid, inferior Thais compared to superior white men especially British, American and Australian.
Anti Thai bigotry is standard and any attempt to contextualise such views are rejected.
Tellingly Media reports from International newspapers are rejected as are any attempts to introduce balance or contextualise the blog's facile reports click bait reports.
BUT it is the contributors who create the click bait outrage. Some members who seem damaged, bitter and so hate filled that they should seek help. It is their views of hate and ignorance that are gleefully promoted by the moderators.
This blog should be torn down by the Thai authorities. Its an insult to the people of Thailand.

A 'gang of 4' moderators ruined the website & caused it to hemorrhage long term posters of 15+ years standing. Their names are Scott, OnTheDarkSide & Metisdead (all septics, the latter being female & has the audacity to answer emails feigning sympathy as a 3rd party to complainants if they actually bother to reply) and the last one is Rimmer, They're triggerred by anything pro Trump or pro Brexit and have zero tolerance in just one direction.

Posters holding the opposite (lefty) view are given a free reign, many of whom holding multiple accounts.

I'm bloody glad they were DDoS'ed and only regret that it wasn't me.

THAIVISA.COM is now ASEANNOW.COM
This comment from below says it all: When that old rogue George sold to Dan Cheeseman and 'Choice Media Asia' in 2015 some Mods were rewarded and the rest were regally SHAFTED. The word on the grapevine at that time was that 7 of his inner circle moderators were going to get between 500,000 and 700,000 baht as a goodwill 'thank you' gesture. All had to sign confidentiality deeds. 50% was to be paid upfront with the balance within 6 months. So the loyal servants of George that weren't one of the Lucky 7, were well and truly shafted by George. The lucky 7 were; Scott, Metisdead, Rimmer. UbonJoe, Charlie H, Crossy and Jai Dee so when they say they are not on a salary that's most probably true. Word on the ground is Dan offered them all some equity stake in the forum so if it was sold further on down the line they would realise a further profit. Hence they stay on board, create the innumerate spam posts and attempt to keep the ad revenue coming into a failing site. But they are not happy, that much is sure, and if another sale doesn't arise or the site goes for a song then all their loyal efforts will have been in vain. I've actually met Jai Dee in real life he is a respected travel writer and a good guy and as far as I know no one has a bad word to say about him.
User's recommendation: Don't visit the site.

This site has changed over the 10 plus years I've been a member.
It used to be a place for advice and lively debate, but now it is a haven for alt right propagandists. The various local forums are full of derogatory comments about Thais and the news forum is dominated racist and white supremacist posts.
Those who post the opposing view are not subjected to constant flaming, but also have their posts removed by the moderators; especially Rimmer, who also regularly suspends those who don't follow the alt right party line.
You may still get some helpful advice in the visa forums, once you have navigated through the numerous pop up ads.

I was a member very early on, being new to Thailand i wanted to get to know more about the place, after many internet searching i came across ThaiVisa, i started reading the posts and found them very helpful, i decided to join as to be more interactive, then at one point i agreed with a post someone had made at which time i replied, i was banned by Scott, i protested because it was nothing to get excited about and was told not to worry it was temporary, i decided not to be part of ThaiVisa and wanted to delete my account, again i was told, it's not possible, you know that AH-HA moment, the feeling of being raped, ripped off, that's why they have so many member, many have probably died but will stay as a member forever, i'll never participate again, everything you read on this site is true, nothing more than an information harvester, your information.
The moderators are horrible Nazis.

The moderators of this site are incompetent and have favourite posters that they allow to attack others and post rubbish, whereas everyone else gets banned for the pettiest of matters. And the site is packed full of ads, AVOID AT ALL COST.

Banned because I said that I will not be vaccinated! So incredible! The freedom of speech doesn't exist of this shiitteee forum managed by dan the $#*!ed blogger who is financed by russian mafia! (just try to know more about his wife and you will understand...)

The forums on this website are second to non for advice. There are so many knowledgeable people posting it is an extraordinary community.

Fake news and arrogant moderators who ban you for not being a dixx suxxer just like them.
Fuxx rimmer and charlie H, I wish that your cancer to kills you soon dixxheads!

The guy who said communists have taken over and blocked free discussion was right. Communists today promote everything from the mainstream media, like climate change, Covid alarmism.

Hi I'm Jingthing and a very famous TV poster. The forum has really become a hotbed for hate against gays and love for Donald Trump and all things conservative.
I would not recommend using this forum as the noise to real information levels have gone out the window obviously with their revenue stream.

Ciao!

I recently went on the Thaivisa website and noticed a sharp increase in the operating temp of my machine.
Conclusion... this site uses huge amounts of date gathering, advertising and malware that is using and selling your information.
It is a hard right elderly male orientated site that will stop at nothing to subject you to advertising and data gathering.

Post deleted because rimmer the monkey piece of $hit of a $#*! doesn't like it. This forum should die and all its moderators monkeys as well! They changed the name because of all bad reviews, it is now called AseanNow.com

Not all uniforms are worn by generals these stupid power hungry knobs are the gestapo claiming troll posts on a whim complete twats