Our mission at the Jobsee.kr Community is to provide a community where positivity outweighs negativity, where people are willing to help one another, and where the complaining and acrimony that is so prevalent at certain other old-school expat bulletin boards can be kept to a minimum. It’s a pipe-dream to think it can ever be completely avoided — everyone has a bad day occasionally — but our hopes here at Jobsee.kr is that we can all just get along, most of the time at least.
To that end, a few guiding principles for participation in the community:
Trust
One of our guiding principles here is trust in one other. Anyone can join the community, create a group, participate in a forum, send private messages, upload a resume, ask a question, start a blog, and do much more. Anyone can post a comment in a forum or a friend’s Wire or on their hosted blog, and say whatever they feel.
As the administrator of Jobsee.kr, I give you the ability to do this because I trust you. I trust that you’ll act in a civilized manner, that you’ll treat others with opposing viewpoints with absolute respect and that you’ll contribute in a positive way to intelligent discussions that we hope will take place here every day.
I give you the benefit of the doubt, because I trust you, so all that I ask is for you to honor that trust and promise to become a good contributor.
After more than a decade in Korea and another decade in countries other than my own, I understand that life in another land can be hard, that employers can be… difficult, that the frustrations of daily life in Korea can make us angry or even bitter sometimes. So it goes. But our interactions with other people can either lead to more negativity, or to less. We’re either part of the problem, or we’re not.
Good Contributions
When the level of conversation here is high, conversations are typified by good contributions from a variety of viewpoints and experiences. Be respectful of others, bring your experiences to the table and share them with everyone. If you make a statement of fact, show supporting evidence, explain yourself. When everyone brings intelligent, thoughtful commentary to a conversation, the site is the best it can possibly be. If you have a unique perspective on a topic, by all means contribute. If you’d like to express an opposing viewpoint in a respectful way, by all means contribute. If you want to get together with other folks to talk about something that interests you, by all means, do it. A web community is only as good as the people who participate there. All I can do as admin and mod is try to make sure that people who are wilfully disruptive are not encouraged or tolerated for long.
One of the things that will make Jobsee.kr valuable to its members is the contributions of the members of the community. This means that what you say is appreciated for the value that it adds to the discussion. With many topics, members go into a conversation already having a general idea of how they feel about the subject. The most valuable contributions present new information, new perspectives, and new ideas that challenge each of us to consider not just what we believe, but why we believe it.
Which all sounds very serious and highminded, and I understand that people just want to relax and socialize sometimes. Absolutely! Go for it. Have fun!
But keep in mind that myself as administrator and our moderators will absolutely not tolerate hate speech of any kind, slander, homophobic, racist or sexist comments, nor are flame-wars going to be something we look kindly upon.
I’m confident that people can act like adults, be sociable, get along, at least most of the time. I still have faith in human nature.
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