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 Thursday January 24 2008

Cafe Alternative

It seems that Dave’s Cafe is not as popular as it once was.  Katie has the lowdown on the move to ELT World. I remember reading one other blog mentioning the same thing, but can’t find the link now.

In any case it doesn’t appear to have affected the Korea forums.
Katie said:

David is an EFL teacher in Turkey, and started the site as his contribution towards making EFL a better “place” for teachers. In an interview with TEFL News, he mentioned that he makes it a priority not to suspend members because they make unfavorable comments towards companies which pay to advertise on his site. There is an innovative solution to threads that get a bit out of hand – threads which might be closed or deleted elsewhere – and that is the Fight Club. In this corner of the site, those who are so inclined can argue to their hearts’ content. Making top bill at the Fight Club are a thread on Been banned from ESL Cafe and the Emerging story about TEFL International.

While there is a bit of apparently open discussion about the Café (and that is what I elected to focus on in this post), ELT World is not an anti-Café or anything like that. There is genuine discussion going on about a variety of topics, most of which have nothing to do with other EFL sites and much to do with teaching English



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Jan 24, 2008 at 09:30 PM
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David Vincent wrote 17 words  on  Monday Jan 28, 2008  at  05:11 AM Turkey

Great to have you at the ELT World forums. Look forward to more lively discussion.

David V.

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