Comments on: Malaysia’s 12th General Election: Bloggers To Turn The Tide?

By: Silly pat

Silly pat — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:13:56 +0000

I agree with the others. I don’t think that bloggers will be that influential, but I think it’s mostly those who are urbanites who will be influenced, if any. Still, I have a feeling that the BN majority will be reduced.

I’ll also agree with Jeffrey Chua. If you’ve not registered as a voter, shaddup. You don’t dare to walk the talk, so you have no business talking about elections. However, if you’re registered but not validated, lain cerita la.

By: Giant Sotong

Giant Sotong — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:27:15 +0000

I think they might be spot on about the rural vs urban thingy. Next thing you know, they’ll say vote BN to prevent these classes from annihilating each other. But I guess we’ll never really know what the real outcome is.

Judging from the kinds of pings on PPS lately, I wouldn’t bet too heavily on blogger power.

By: Jeffrey Chew

Jeffrey Chew — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:23:25 +0000

Peter - there is a growing group of bloggers that feel most of the postings are clearly written by those who are non-voters. What makes it more interesting is to have bloggers put their profile to proof that they are voters when the write something about how they feel about certain issues. Obviously, one can get his/her own record from SPR and paste it onto their posting. Simply - show and tell - that should be the prime policy.

I am not getting excited at all when I read postings on PetalingStreet. I believe we can write till kingdom come but if the writer is not even a voter, do themselves a favor - stop talking about it.

By: Klaw

Klaw — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:59:18 +0000

Truthfully, I think bloggers do play a role. But the final influence is still not as much, because a lot of people still believe what’s being printed in the papers.

The older people especially cannot believe that the newspapers will print lies.