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Q: Does anyone still visit the chinasmack website?
I have seen the most horrific things on this website and decided never to return save for when I really am feeling too happy about my life and situation here in China. There are so many clips of people being killed or dead, it's all just too much for me to handle. On the flip side though there are so many other quirkier stories that are actually worth reading sometimes. Thoughts....?
9 years 42 weeks ago in Web & Technology - China
Sometimes.
The website is gaudy and trashy in appearance, and basically just provides sensational news stories without the dry, sarcastic assessment at Shanghaiist, etc.
What I like about Chinasmack are the translations, particularly the responses translated from Chinese. Sometimes they are really refreshing in clarity. Sometimes just male insecurity and government-inspired patriotism.
That said, I hope no Chinese people are reading translated YouTube comments. That would utterly confirm China's cultural superiority to the Western world.
I used to... there are some good people on those forums. But I find the negative users are like here except more to the extreme.
People trolling hating on Chinese very harshly, Chinese doing the "yeah, but in America there is..." and then there are the "superiors". The people that somehow know everything about everything (at least in their minds)... that have to comment on everything...
The stories are okay and translations are decent. Sometimes you get a Chinese comment is very wise and extremely well thought out. But most are just blind nationalism or hatred.
Eorthisio:
Well resumed, the hateful trolls still living in China and the "Zhongguoren master race" Chinese posting there with Canadian and American IPs are funny, the fresh off the boat expats who think they know everything are detestable.
I read it. I like the translated Chinese comments, it's good to know how locals feel about some of the same new stories we comment on. I made me realize there are actually some sane,normal people out there instead of just the wumao idiots. There are a lot of wumao idiots out there though.
I often find myself reading something in the news here and hoping Chinasmack picks it up, just so I can see what people are really thinking rather than what the official party line is.
The website has dropped the ball in covering a majority of bad events in China. I don't visit it much anymore.
I visit other sites that help me continue to fuel my hatred. ChinaSmack isn't cutting it anymore. I need some next-level stuff... you know, stuff that ChinaSmack refuses to cover?
yeah whats interesting on there is the local commentary. some of them are pretty insightful.
no clue on how representative the comments are though. its possible they include every smart one they see because they are interesting. from their editorial standpoint its nice to provide both sides of the discussion.
but from a business standpoint what drives traffic is interest which is generated by the most racist and nationalistic comments vs. the most intelligent/enlightened ones.
as long as we can't read the source material we cant know what the real discussion looks like.
