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Dottie, it is not clear to me what you are not finding. Things only rarely are deleted from CL, and I mean only extremely rarely. As I look at Bonnie's posts (plural) I have no difficulty finding everything that she refers to. Can you be more specific as to what you are not finding?

Hotel El Oasis and Oasis Restaurant These two entries point to the same place, but you may prefer one over the other based on where in the hotel you wish to focus attention.

Gimnasio (Stadium) in Los Naranjos

The health care resource listing was updated today to incorporate two "Helpful People" (at the very bottom of the listing), including Keep It Simple and Ask Geovana.

Several postings in this topic have been split off into a new topic. The subject transitioned into a discussion of health care resources that might accept direct payments from insurance companies. Those postings are more appropriately placed in the Insurance forum, and therefore may be found at:

The health care resource listing was updated today to incorporate services and products related to hearing and hearing aids.

If someone can provide more specific information about hearing aid services (anywhere in Panama), then please either post here or send a PM to @Admin_01 so that this information can be added to this health care resource listing. By "more specific information" I am referring to name of the business, contact information, website (if any), hours of operation, location, etc.

This is the second time that this subject of disabling the reputation reporting system functionality has come up in CL's life. What we write here is NOT meant as a final decision, but rather continuing the discussion to be sure that we all truly understand all of the issues and goals. One of the underlying goals of CL is to provide a non-confrontational social medium addressing life in the Chiriqui Province. The reputation system is basically a tool to facilitate "self moderation" by the members. Several "tools" exist to assist in achieving this goal, and reputations are just one such tool. We have seen several instances where reputations have resulted in members "moderating" their words. In some cases, some of those who received negative reputation have left CL and moved on to other venues that allow them unfettered negativity. We wish them well in those other websites that permit them fulfill their need to post caustic words. One of the side benefits of reputations was beginning to be surfaced in Bonnie's posting that starts out with: I am curious how many of our users are aware of or actually view what is called the "leaderboard". Please visit http://www.chiriqui.life/leaderboard/. From the current reputation levels, you hopefully can see that Roger B and Bonnie, and etc., are valuable and respected members of CL. The leaderboard is a dynamic display that changes all the time. The leaderboard allows users to "drill down" and form their own opinion as to who provides valuable content. Note that the leaderboard does not allow one to "drill up" from the least favorite direction. There is value in knowing whom others view as providing valuable information. Are we as the owners/administrators able to shut down the reputation system? Yes. We currently are not strongly motivated to do that because there is value in this self-moderation tool. However, we always do listen to our members and try to provide a resource that is used, supported, and favored. At the same time we definitely do understand that receiving a negative reputation oftentimes is not a pleasant experience. (I have received negatives in my "Bud" persona; management accounts cannot receive reputations.) Next, addressing an aspect highlighted by JohnF13, referring to the monitoring of use (abuse) of the reputation system. Monitoring is done on an ongoing basis. We cannot and do not assess use of the reputation system based on their "validity". Everyone has their own mindset about what a reputation means to them, and their own value reference scale. Monitoring means that we watch how many reputations are given by any member (only registered members can give reputations; members cannot give themselves reputation) during a time frame. Current thresholds are three or more reputations within a short period of time. Once we see three or more reputations in a short period of time, we then look at the full picture and make an admittedly subjective decision regarding abuse or not. If there is an issue that needs to be pursued further, then we do that in private with the involved member. What the owners/administrators are asking now is for those with an interest in this topic to look at the leaderboard, and provide their additional feedback with that knowledge and experience of the leaderboard behind them, coupled with a rethinking of the concept of self-moderation tools. We listen to our members, but have a different viewing portal from regular members because we have the advantage of all of the [both supportive and opposing] feedback from all members, coupled with the experience of the results of a fairly good self-moderating tool. We look forward to hearing additional feedback and comments here in this thread (for all to see). Thanks.

Your feedback and recommendation are noted. Thank you. Going a bit further, please note that you are asserting something that is not correct, referring to "There is no policing or it...". All activity on CL is routinely monitored. Sometimes the monitoring is delayed, but eventually completed, typically within 24 hours. We suggest that you revisit Rule #7 at http://www.chiriqui.life/topic/6-terms-rules/.

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Several postings in this topic were split off into a new topic because of a change in subject matter. No problem here, and not complaining. Here is a link to the new topic:

This issue has been addressed; no more action needed.

Teaser here. We are working on a podcast that discusses farm raised fish, among other subjects. The podcast should go public within a couple of days. My take is that farm raised fish will only continue to grow in importance, given that demand continues to go up (increasing population) and supply declines (oceans being fished out and the regulatory environment becoming more aggressive). Stay tuned here on CL as it was a good interview that Mike did.

Skateworld of Boquete

A good idea. Now to figure out how to implement using our software. Give us a bit of time to research some options.

Maggie's List (our pet care resource listing) shown above was updated today to Issue 1.16 with expanded location information for Laboratorio Dixon. We have chosen to use a hotlink to Google Maps for a graphical display of the location for this laboratory.

I refer you to Rule #17 (see http://www.chiriqui.life/topic/6-terms-rules/): These kinds of matters are routinely handled by the CL Staff. Simply send a PM (private message) to @Admin_01 (that is a hotlink, click on it and then click on the message icon), and identify which posting and what is to be changed.

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