Take it with a grain of salt, or don't if you don't want to. There are all kinds of people.

You being here and participating in discussion is then like a shepherd discussing his flute playing with sheep and wolve and bragging how clever he is. Sounds stupid to any sane person.

We can get along. Seems like you can't though.

وطن پرستی به فحش دادن به وطن نیست . حمالی بیگانه کردن نیست نق زدن نیست

Choghok I don't know where you live (perhaps in Canada?! just kidding ;-) but here in America there is no limit to free speech and anyone can say anything, including hate speech and groups such as neo-Nazi, KKK and various anti Government militant groups have magazine, websites and rallys.

Now as far as Hajiagha you have to take him with a grain of salt. Don't take him literally, he loves Iran the way he knows how. He has fought in the war and was a journalist in Iran. Now he is here, has been here for several years but he doesn't get everything like you do.

Where else and who else can you get as unpolished and raw like Hajiagha? You hear so much about what you don't like but you don't have a live person to be an example. So let him be and let us have some frank discussiona and smile a bit.

Yes there will be times when he'll insult feminists and such and I may have an issue with that and we'll discuss it and you'll see it but for the most part, this is fun!

Even in USA you are not allowed to say whatever, for example threaten people or tell other people to harrass and kill others.

Now I do not say that Hajiagha is doing that. But he and others like him do not contribute to any positive dialogue. Iranian.com can set up a poll to see how many people find his drawings funny or interesting.

Character assasination and being sexist does not make any sane people laugh.

Just this past election cycle in America, two famous nutjobs, one Ted Nuggent and another one I can't remember now threatned and encouraged people to pick up guns and kill Obama! Secret Service interviewed them and then let them go.

In another example, US Govt itself killed an American citizen in Yemen with a drone because he was suspected of being a terrorist. No trial or anything.

These are not what we're talking about here. I understad Hajiahga is very harsh and controversial and especially here he says all the things some people don't like to hear, many because they think they crap don't stink! They are too chic and goody two shoe!

Hajiagha and people from Shahs of Sunset are two sides of the same coin. They each think the other person represents the Iranians and each have a point!

Hajiagha is a good person to just sit back and see how far things can go! It's a lively debate and especially now that not much is going on and we're starting a new website, we can use some shock therapy and raw comedy! Just look at some who try to engage him in a political debate! How desparate or off does one have to be?! Don't you get it?!

Do not want to bring this to maraton debate but 2 things.
1. The secret service is not allowed to work on American soil so CIA would be prosecuted if they would have interrogate this guy.
2. If threatening and asking people to harrass or kill is not a crime then why would they be answering questions.
3. Nobody care how "good" a person really is if he or she can not debate with no logic. With extremism and no logic you cannot come to any point.

The answer to the questioning was that he was excercising his first amendment rights, which is right to free speech. Again that's not our issue and problem here, so we can discuss it when and if it happens and I can already say that I'll always condemn it.

Now as far as a "good" person, we're talking about being raw and funny. You know all those comedians who make fun of politicians and famous people, do the same thing. ALL those politicians or famous people have logic and believe in what they say. The comedians say the SAME thing they say (which is supposed to be logical) only in a different tone and that makes it funny!

You can 'try' to debate and discuss any subject with someone who is not taking it seriously for eternity and that person will talk to you too! Endlessly! The only thing it does is to make you mad and the rest of us who are watching = entertained!

I'm gonna let this one pass you crazy misfit lunatic! But will delete future your such comments.

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All good things come to an end, that's all.

Hajiagha sometimes change is sucks to canada! If you were freed under the old Iranian page you'd like it better! The old Iranian page with Hajiagha was like Iran and the new Iranian page is like Canda!

به‌‌‌ به‌‌‌ حاجی جان! سلام! سلام به روی ماهت! کجا بودی صفا اوردی! یاد قدیم‌ها به خیر، خوش حالم که دو باره می‌تونیم ضّد کانادا و این جور کوفت و زهر مار‌ها حرف بزنیم!

حاجی آقا جون می‌شه یک کاریکاتور از Shahs Of Sunset بکشی؟ قربون دستت ناز نفست!

واقعا که SUCKS TO CANADA!

وطن پرستی به فحش دادن به وطن نیست . حمالی بیگانه کردن نیست نق زدن نیست

Oh! Oh! I know! Shah was a dictator and Mossadegh was a liberator/enhancer!

why would you delete a comment, of all comments one that makes a legitimate point relevant to you comment?

Do you have a problem with reason? Or are you opposed to freedom of expression and therefore into censorship?

I deleted your comment because I could. You tend to talk too much and babble a lot. Since we're not going to tarof anymore I didn't want to keep irrelevant comments.

Mossadegh was the best man in the world, the greatest even greater than Muhammad Ali, and that's all there is to it! capiche?!

That was a very telling response, "I deleted your comment because I could!"

So now you have the power to censor a point of view you would not like expressed you immediately delete it. How very democratic and tolerant of you?

It says so much about how you are showing up and your values I can not start to point it out for you. : )

Yet JJ was a Jail Keeper????

I am the master of my own domain. This is my house and I can choose to invite and not invite whoever I want. JJ was the master of domain for everyone.

I explained the reason for my deletion, you can write your own blog and say whatever you want about me. See if I care!

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In all seriousness if Iranian Intellectuals don't learn this one basic definition and why, they won't even know where to start to fix their issues, and will create worse based on their lack of wisdom and abundance of ignorance.

Once Iranians have enough Intellectuals leading the people, as opposed to Anti-Intellectuals misleading them, then there will be a basis for real hope for Iranians and not until then. At this stage in Irans development anyone who has helped create true intellectuals has helped Iran and her people anyone who did not and has not helped create true Intellectuals is not of true value to iranians.

hey there. there's caching happening in the background so there's a little delay for some things to get updated. also, the option to view all comments should be up tomorrow.

I also noticed that only comments are posted and if we reply to a comment it is not posted! Why is that?

Please since you are the owner of the old and new i.com please take note that we had a good web magazine and lost it. It was customized for us, please bring back those functionalities. This website won't work this way if you have a large active readers and contributors.

Lastly, I'd like to please ask you to look into Azadeh Azad's password and email situation. I see that she once registered but looks like she's not able to log in. thanks

Faramarz jaan it's not about user-interface or releases. It's about the "organization of content". Right now this new design is not popular as you or I or Mr. Amin would like. Imagine the day, or even today, when you have thousands of users and everyone wants to post something. You can't catch up with everything. Why should it be that way?

Would you agree with me that the "organization" of the old i.com was based on years or tuning and fine tuning everything? For example, we used to have 5 or 7 blogs "featured", then it went to more than a dozen. We didn't have "recent comments" or "Hot Today" or "tabs" but all were added because the need was there.

More importantly when you clicked on "more" you'd see more, now you can't see shet! I'm trying to be honest here. I thought this would be good and said so at the beginning. But now I see so much wrong with this.

We didn't need wholesale change, just a little tweaking.

Esfand Jaan, the layout of the page is very similar to Huff Post with three columns and enough information about each item that allows you to learn about the blog without opening it. That takes real estate.

Where it lacks is that under each blog in Huff Post there is a list of similar material which functions as a tab. For example, Hajiagha's multiple picture posting can be managed with a single post and the rest under that one post.

All of this is easily accomplished by adding the functionality and hands-on admin/editor's involvement 7x24.

Faramarz jaan first of all I see 3 columns on Huff Post and the existence of "Tabs". But that's not the point. The old i.com design was "custom made" for us.

I like the elimination of Editor or maybe we can have a part time Editor or something, what we don't need is this "fast paced" mumbo jumbo!

Imagine for example, in the "articles" section of the old i.com, the most voted or viewed or whatever "algorithm" punches out is "featured". We could still keep the Blog section (otherwise known as the belog section ;-) and the News Section and the other tabs as they were before.

All good things come to an end and I suppose nothing I or anyone else can say, will bring back the old i.com. It's just a shame or as we say in Farsi "afsoos"!

Esfand Jaan,
I don't mean to turn this into an application development discussion or play ignorant to the shortcomings of the new design. But I understand why it turned out the way it did.

I have already mentioned the lack of user input. Second, it was probably rushed into production without much "soaking." Third, when we migrated from the old to the new, most likely the technology platform (web design software) was changed and in all likelihood the functionality is what came out of the box with minimal customization.

So the best path forward is to provide the input and ask for improvements and hopefully it will not take 5-7 years.

Well the best input I can provide is to use all the organizational structure of the old i.com. Bring back, most viewed, most discussed, hot today, recent comments, various tabs and so on. They just have to remember they're supposed to be "adding" stuff not overhauling everything.

Bring the sexy back!