WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2013
• Judges' Choice, Best Mobile App:
Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) Awards 2011
• Best in Digital Content, Best in Mobile Media:
WAN-IFRA Asian Digital Media Awards 2010
• Best Blog (Silver) covering advertising, marketing or media subjects:
Asia Interactive Awards 2009
(From http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/singaporeseen/about-us)
I like to first declare that my command of English is not that good. =)
Ever since the start up of STOMP, it has definitely created awareness of both the good and the bad things happening in Singapore. Personally speaking, there was a period of time when I was actively surfing STOMP on a daily basis because I had nothing much to do. However, for the past few years, I have stopped surfing STOMP because I felt that this platform was misused by Singaporeans. Most of the things posted on STOMP were negative news than positive ones and had no positive value in improving Singapore's society.
Let's bring up some of the recent examples that happened in Singapore. First, the incident of Jesslyn Tan making a spot out of the uncle causing so much unnecessary distress to both her and the uncle. Another few more incidents of NS personnel being taken photos of and posted on STOMP. Also, other incidents that were being blown up because of this social media.
For these incidents that were posted on STOMP, it is true that the parties involved might have done wrong. However, on the other hand, I believe that STOMP as an enterprise played a very big part in magnifying these incidents. Most of us would have blamed the parties involved, either the STOMPer for posting rubbish or the one being STOMPed for doing stupid stuff. However, as most of us should know, the articles on STOMP had been moderated and filtered before it is allowed to be published on STOMP. I believe that the moderators should take responsibility for the distress caused to these victims of online flaming whether these victims deserve it or not.
It is clear that STOMP do not have the interest of educating the public by confirming the accuracy of the information before publishing the articles. They are just another business that is out to make use of social media to gain more revenue. However, I personally believe that they ought to exercise social responsibility. What I am not claiming is that they need to research through everything that they received before publishing it on STOMP.
My point is that, STOMP needs to show social responsibility to reject certain post that are more sensitive and have the potential to cause distress to other people's lives. Ultimately, not everything that is being submitted to STOMP is published but only those that are being chosen. I appeal to STOMP in having a stricter guideline for the moderators to follow then to be socially irresponsible and post things that would affect the lives of innocent Singaporeans.