Why is Sikhsangat.com a success ?

[dallysingh101]

27 minutes ago, Singh559 said:

I swear everyone who says this while bashing other sites comes off as a pretentious hipster who only dines at the most organic and most raw vegan lettuce restaurants. 

Both are good 

lol@^^^^

[dallysingh101]

41 minutes ago, Singh559 said:

I swear everyone who says this while bashing other sites comes off as a pretentious hipster who only dines at the most organic and most raw vegan lettuce restaurants. 

Both are good 

Yeah, but it's got to be said, the literary action was heavier on that site. 

[jkvlondon]

6 hours ago, singhbj singh said:

Sikhnet once introduced realtime updates just like SS but due to indecent behaviour of few members they reverted back to mod approval system.

Sikhnet team is out of sync when it comes to Interactivity.

sikhnet have a nasty habit of editing/ignoring posts which point out flaws in their core ideology which is anti-gurmat or creates dubida in sangat's minds.

[BhForce]

12 hours ago, ipledgeblue said:

Also I haven't seen much success from any of these forums in promoting issues effecting British sikhs such as turban hatred from other sikhs and relatives, keeping proper rehit like training with shastar and martial arts,

What are you talking about? There have been many topics about turban-hatred and about shasters.

12 hours ago, ipledgeblue said:

I am sure this forum at least is not designed for discussing halal meat being served in schools and workplaces etc

Why would you say that? There have been many posts on this site warning about the growing radical Islamic threat, and every Sikh is agreed that we cannot eat halal meat. Why do you think this forum would not respond well to such a post? Go ahead and open up such a post, and I, for one, will participate in it.

12 hours ago, ipledgeblue said:

The fact that there is no forum which caters for the whole sangat is a big problem.

Erm, this is such a forum. There are no IP-address restrictions on accessing Sikhsangat.com. Everyone in the whole sangat (in the world) can, and does, participate in it.

Strangely, you say here that you want a forum catering to the whole sangat, yet a paragraph or so above, you say you want one catering to the British sangat. Which is it?

[Kira]

regardless whether u like Sikhawareness of even SPN, there are some real gems there in terms of articles and research into various things. 

[singhbj singh]

5 hours ago, jkvlondon said:

sikhnet have a nasty habit of editing/ignoring posts which point out flaws in their core ideology which is anti-gurmat or creates dubida in sangat's minds.

Could be but I had a good run at their forum 12 years.

Guess they tolerated me & I them :-)

[Singh559]

23 hours ago, dallysingh101 said:

Yeah, but it's got to be said, the literary action was heavier on that site. 

Yeah definitely has a lot of gems there and I lurked there often as well. PJS on here was great as well, but he stopped posting here. =[

[dallysingh101]

Hands down. The worst site I ever encountered for editing people's posts was sikhchic. They would edit your posts to mean exactly the opposite of what you were trying to express. 

[S1ngh]

The reason why this forum survived is because it's being driven by sangat itself. We do not align with anyone as we want to stay independent. We never believed in promoting one group nor try to demonize anyone.

sikhsangat is sangats forum and will stay up as long as waheguru akal purakh wishes it to stay.

special thanks is to amar @Balait_da_Sher for keeping it safe for 15+years.

[BhForce]

52 minutes ago, S1ngh said:

The reason why this forum survived is because it's being driven by sangat itself. We do not align with anyone as we want to stay independent. We never believed in promoting one group nor try to demonize anyone.

Nicely put. We do need a place where we can all talk amongst ourselves. It should not be a place where everyone thinks exactly alike. What would be the point of that?

One big lesson that you get out of participating on Sikhsangat, is that a person that you may disagree with vehemently on one issue is the same person that you may agree with strongly on another issue. In my opinion, this breeds empathy and brotherly-feelings among us where we can appreciate that a Sikh who disagrees with us on some issues still has Panthic emotion.