What do you think about the site that have discrimination ?

I do not think that Ciao, as many other sites, is racist. We have to understand the vision and policies of the site. From my observations it was the fault of many members from the currently banned countries for not keeping to the requirements. Two main issues are language use and scamming activities. The use of poor English on sites like Ciao has been mentioned in myLot and several other forums. Unfortunately instead of shaping up the people who brought the matter up were seen in a negative light. The world will never become a better place if we vent our anger on the people who are actually trying to help us. Scammers would jump at any chance of making a quick buck. For review sites opinions on other sites are copied and pasted, or rehashed before being reposted. I believe all sites have a mechanism to detect this. One review every fifteen minutes? I do not think that this is possible even though the person who wrote this claimed he was honest. This is only possible if the products have been a long time on the market and this guy did use all of them. By the way this person is Asian. As for us how many products have we really used? Instead of blaming Ciao attention should be focused on the real perpetrators. If we are the owners of a site would we let the scammers and poor writers get away with it? If the majority are from a particular area the easiest thing to do is to ban everyone from this area. Banning individuals works when the number is small. all the best, rosdimy

It's not that serious actually.. If u think ciao is being a racist or whatever, then think about those ple in india.. They are not allowed to join many online earnings due to their country.. ANd yet they are not really complaining.. I guess, with each restrictions a site has, they will have their own reasons for doing so.. Take ciao as an example, if they have sufficient proof to show that asians are the majority spammers, then it's natural for them to come up with such precaution.. For they wont want some spammers to ruin their reputation at all.. ON top of that, there are too many ple abusing the whole system, thus resulting in this.. If any members of ciao wanna blame anybody, they have to blame those selfish spammers first..

That's alright maybe they have reasons for doing it. If they think asian have lesser abilities, well that's their own opinion and they are entitled to it. Will just enjoy the site who accepts everyone and who maybe does not descriminate.

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I think it is a bit unfair for some Asian people who are actually very good in English who got banned in sites like Ciao. Sites like Ciao could have banned members who have bad English and not the whole country itself. But I would not go so far to call it "racism".

i think sites that discriminate other races should not be entertained because it's disrespectful and everyone should have equal rights because we're all human beings and we only differ in culture and traditions but we are all the same..ü and i agree in "No to Discrimination"..ü

I am not saying it is right but the terms and conditions of ciao and other sites states that reviews need to be written in English. Some reviews that were getting written were almost incomprehensible and so there are two solutions, employ people to proof read through reviews, which means that rather than reviewers being paid, the proofreaders would be. Or ban certain countries and set up sites to be written in Chinese, Hindi, or any other local langauge. I know that sites such as Helium are looking more to establishing sites where people can write in the first language. Is it racist? probably in the broadest sense of the term but it is more about discimination on the basis of expertise, and there is no easy or cheap option for such sites to ban individuals.

Ok, I think you got many thoughtful opinions already about Ciao. Regarding the survey sites, I think that's not racist at all. Surveys are done for specific purposes. As a marketing tools, most surveys are conducted to figure people opinions and acceptance about newly-launched or upcoming products. Many products are being marketed to certain areas or countries due to the nature of the products. It is in that areas the surveys are conducted. You know, it doesn't make sense to do surveys in Indonesia for a product you want to market in UK, right?

Apart from the language thing and spamming and cheating and what not reasons these sites give, I think recession has a big hand to play for the bans. These sites are based directly from USA (Helium) or UK(Ciao) and they wish to keep their spending low and have restricted the users from their country only. I think this stage would soon pass as soon as the stage of recession ends. bourne

I think there is nothing wrong with your point of view, but it can not blame those who survey sites, based on the credibility issue, many countries members of non-compliance with this condition, with the result that those sites had to accept restrictions in certain countries.

It may not be racism at all and they may have good reasons for doing so. But this move is totally wrong. If they think there are lots of people from Asia submitting trash materials, there are other means to prevent this. Pre-screening of members is much better than banning a whole continent. The site could have made a policy that ban members who submits more than five or ten crappy writings. Limiting number of article submitted per day for new comers could have been implemented too to discourage spammers. As for the additional work of proofreading articles, there are lots of grammar and spelling checker in the web available now. If an article can't pass a certain threshold, then the article should automatically go to the trash bin.

Somewhere i agree and somewhere i don't..... there are some sites which pay us for reviewing that product.....now suppose that product is available only in the US and only for the people of US then whats the point in selling it to the other countries or rather giving it away to test it....... But when it comes to writing reviews, write some short stories, etc I feel it is absolutely wrong.....I guess they feel all the Asians and other countries where English is not their first language do not know any bit of English....which I fell is not right....offcourse we are week in our grammar sometimes but what really matters is how well we portray what we have to say..... and btw sites like ciao have a simple option of rejecting the topics which they feel do not match upto their standards.....why ban them.....its really rude when you are not allowed somewhere to post your views or write something..... and the problem is if one of the sites does it most of the others follow suite.....I am just keeping my fingers crossed as to other site should not do this.....it would really be bad.....