Who on the Nicaragua forum actually lives in Nicaragua?

Totally agree with #9 someone at LP is seriously dropping the ball.What was once the ONLY forum worth checking out for travel advice is rapidly being taken over by others and being left to die a slow death.
Surely they could sort out the bugs,its a total pain trying to log in and the site looks dated compared to Political Stew or even Trip Advisor.
I still feel "Loyal" towards LP but its really slipping and people are going elsewhere,just look how many questions and replies Trip Advisor gets.....waaay more that TT.

Yes,a lot of questions and answers (i read that site too)..though the quality of both questions and answers is often abysmal there........

Agreed lucapal.....the majority of posts on Trip advisor are "What is hotel X like?" and i trust my travelling brethren on here more than anywhere else but the TT is a shadow of its former self....maybe i'm being nostalgic but i wish it was more like the old days,fighting and all....

I have been on TT for years and even though the mods used to be a bit more communicative I have never heard anything like a TT philosophy being presented.
Obviously this is a site more geared to help travelers but never have I felt unwanted as a resident of of a specific destination. When was this stated?
A bigger problem than somebody giving out clip and paste info instead of actual experience is scaring away first time posters with their role as sudo moderator. It is fine saying we need more info to answer your question, but there is no need to make the poster feel bad or dumb about their question.
I think the best example of this is one I came across on the USA branch once. A first time poster was asking about sky diving options in Oahu. Someone we all know here replied, "HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF GOOGLE?"
I almost never whine to the mods but for this I did. I was basically told to mind my own business and said person accused me of stalking them. This is not how you attract new users to TT, and even though some people would like to be king of this domain, it is new users that keep the TT going. This, in my opinion, is why TT is dying on the vine.

lol. i have been accused of stalking and the said person complained to mods and got me taken off.

i agree with everything that maliante said.

scaring away first time posters

Please, this phrase is so ridiculous, I wish we could outlaw it. I think that everyone should stop using "you're scaring someone" as a response to anything, ever, even the sketch koocha nonsense which I imagine could be legitimately terrifying for someone not used to all that.

We're on the internet for goodness sake, this is – or used to be – a feisty forum. Anyone who is "scared off" by cut and pasted text should reconsider ever leaving their country. The only "scary" thing should be if you ask a question and the forum's too much of a ghost town for anyone to even answer.

The idea of attracting new users to TT at this point is a laugh, as the site has become a disastrous soup of bugs and has lost a great deal of its usefulness. A bigger problem is the profoundly poorly-made filter which allows certain 4-letter words but censors m-u-r-d-e-r and d-r-u-g-s (unless you put dashes in them). It would be funny if it weren't so gosh darn dumb.

I think when a person registers on TT they should state their country of residence. You click on a poster and find no information or just jokes it makes me wonder.
It might be relevant to know what experience a poster has in a country. As on the Cuba branch, few live there and some were there once 5 years ago but they all are experts now. Ditto many countries and posters on the CA branch.

saying that if everybody should be able to take abuse

Come on now, who said that? Copy/pasted text is abuse?

Anyone who is spooked away by a rude or silly answer was not long for this forum, anyway. Yes, you'll get some of those unnecessary "just stay home" type responses to people asking the same. old. questions. about "safety" in certain countries, but you also have a good number of posters here who create alternate accounts – or in SOMEone's case, hundreds of them – just to ask absurd trollful questions and get people riled up. It's all part of the site's weird atmosphere and short of the place completely melting down and going offline, I don't see that as changing, ever.

When traveling independently, you're going to have to interact with rude people: end of story. For people who can't stomach that, I guess there are... cruises or something, and maybe travel agents (they still have those, right? I bet they're very polite).

Ok scare is not the right word but not everybody seeking advice is a hardened internet worrier. saying that if everybody should be able to take abuse to take part in the forum is really dumb.
Actually the first post I ever made on here was when I was living in Panama and I had to do my visa extension in Costa Rica. I asked if anybody knew what movies were currently playing in San Jose.
The first and only answer I got was from you know who railing on me for going to such a beautiful country to watch movies and that I should just stay at home blah blah blah.
Why is that type of response OK just because the internet can be a rough place?
That is what I am saying about long time posters here "scaring" away first time posters.
Im a big boy and I answered him in full, but I am sure if my mother. for example, had asked the same question, she would not have returned to ask more questions. Not because she was scared but because she does not like to interact with such rude people.

ditto on # 16 & 17!