Singapore Seen can be informative at times, but at times, it can be really irritating. I don’t understand why everytime I visit the website, I would see articles with regards to commuters eating on the MRT.

If you ask me why I say that Singapore Seen shouldn’t exist, I would just fight my stand with 1 simple reason - Singaporeans’ (& Singapore’s) reputation can be spoilt just through the website.

Many of the news articles reported by STOMPers, and approved by editors totally xia suay (embarrass) Singaporeans, especially those featuring ugly commuters, ugly neighbours, ugly etc! Just imagine people from overseas surfs STOMP.com.sg and finds so many articles embarrassing Singaporeans! Seriously, will you still be proud of your country if that happens?

There are goods and bads of having Singapore Seen. It can be a well-liked-by-angry-people portal whereby people can rant and feel happy. Or, it can be a site where people see the bad side of each other.

I’m pretty certain that the website receives traffic mainly (mostly) from Singapore, but there’s a small percentage of visitors from overseas. The small percentage may not be a significant amount right now, but in time to come, through word of mouth, the website will get more international traffic.

I would like to suggest a few changes:

  1. The number of complaints (articles) posted everyday
    The number of articles increase time by time and now, more and more articles get approved in a day. The problem is: out of so many articles, most of them are complaint articles. It will only show that Singaporeans are good at complaining.
    I think this has to change. Or actually, it’s good if it remains this way - Uniquely Singapore.
  2. Repeated/Similar articles shouldn’t exist.
    Once is enough. Twice is still okay, but 6 articles which targets the same topic - eating on MRT/bus. This shouldn’t be the way to embarrass people. The right way would be to educate people; through public education, then people will learn and less faults like this would be repeated. Agree?
    But again, the point here is, similar articles shouldn’t be featured on main page. (Perhaps like tomorrow.sg)
  3. QC should be done
    I know there are editors moderating the articles and editing the photos. The problem here lies with bad photo quality. Example
    I think when we read news, we expect/prefer to see nice photographs along with them.

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The above mentioned problem - people eating on MRT can be solved as time goes by - through education. More campaigns can be held to teach people the importance of behaving well in public. Let’s hope when “Visit Singapore Year” comes, Singapore would be an eye-opener to travelers - Clean and green country with well-mannered people!




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