aseannow.com Reviews 9

This site is full of plagiarism content with clear tendency of anti-democracy and pro terrorism. Once you leave a comment you'll be banned. It's a fake forum.

The website is a for profit media platform that generates website traffic for advertisers. It uses scraped AI generated content that is taken from other media sources, inhouse generated promotional articles, and its "forum". As a result, the content can be unreliable because it is incomplete or inaccurate. Its forum by an unappealing demographic with almost no female or people under the age of 45. One has the impression that it is mostly low income elderly western white men who's social life is anchored in brothels and seedy beer bars. The forum has multiple extremist, conspiracy promoting lunatics, and Russian and Arab supporters who push out political disinformation and biased commentary. A business is well advised to read the forums closely to gain an understanding of who reads the website and whether that is the client profile it wants. The website is free for use and its quality reflects it.

Banned without warning after several years- for asking a sponsor a simple question deemed to be a 'negative attack'. I merely wanted to know where Thaivisa centre gets people's emails from. it's all about keeping the advertisers happy on Asean now, not the members, without who the forum would not even exist.

Heavy handed, ego driven moderation. Too many anti-Thai topic
The site has too many old fat who endlessly whine about Thailand.

When I joined 6 years ago as a new expat when it was named ThaiVisaForum it was focused on topics pertinent to new expats.

The last two years AN has been in decline trying desperately to salvage their market by widening their scope to several SEA countries. They failed.
I was recently banned from the forum for 2 days 3minutes (????) with the reason given as a post I made in 2021. Yes, 4 years ago. When I asked for an explanation the ban was extended to permanent.
I realized it was time to leave, like so many before me, so I canceled my subscription telling them why.

The other reviews here tell the story so I won't repeat them.
My opinion is the site understandably suffering financially and is probably struggling to pay their staff. Thaiger, has some class, will eventually pull the plug I suspect.

No content there that isn't 3rd hand at best. Don't waste your time unless you have an unbounded appetite for advertising, sponsored euphemistic travel brochure articles/'advertorials', heavy censorship (even Private Messages) by thin-skinned mods, lots of whining/bickering sexpats forums and gory videos of the daily road carnage interspersed with warnings from the mods about members breaking their sacrosanctsact bylaws.

If I could give it zero stars I would - now just a scam site full of fake accounts and tired old sexpat geezers squabblling away to no one. Avoid Rediitt's far better for everything and you will lose your will to live if you spend more than a moment there.

You don’t get much far left than thAT
Forum.
Anti anything that doesn’t fit a leftest woke agenda.

Imagine a political forum forbidding the acronym TDS

The annoying trolling was getting better and now worse again. Plus all the censoring. Not excited about merging with the Thaiger site......