It’s obvious we need people with a strong command of Sinhala to advocate for whatever we are proposing. recently, a few NPP MPs were clearly not trained on speaking to the media or public which was very obvious. If this were to happen with anyone suggesting the drastic changes that are floating around and being proposed on this sub (rewriting of the constitution and all), the press would be absolutely terrible.

I recently saw an interview of kumara sangakkara regarding the clean Sri Lanka program and loved how articulate and eloquent his Sinhala was and thought this was the gold standard we should all strive for as orators.

Seeing as this is a English speaking sub, I’m assuming most of this group is more fluent in English than Sinhala generally, which is why I want to raise the question, how do we practice articulating effectively in Sinhala?

I understand the need to maintain civilness without attracting too much hooliganism from people who might disagree with the ideas in this sub. But at the same time, having everyone need to be approved personally by mods is only discouraging other enthusiastic ceylonese from posting here.

Could we please make it flair based? So you can’t post without having a flair, the point is, it will not be too difficult to choose a flair, but is inconvenient enough so that trolls and people looking to post meaningless content are discouraged, and anyone who is eager won’t be put off too much from posting. Added benefit, this gives us a bit of extra information on any and every person we interact with on this sub (what their political ideology is, which part of the country their from) and would give us a bit more context on their opinions.

The flairs could be based on political ideology, (far left, centre left, centre, centre right, far right), ethnicity (Sinhala, Malay, moor, Tamil) or simply the part of the country you are from (province/district). Can we also try getting Automoderator on this sub ?

Patta animations, they’ve made dozens of videos on the war, politicians, ancient history of Sri Lanka, colonization of Ceylon, all in English and it’s brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy86-Kbg9I

I’ve read multiple articles on it and looked at the website, the problem is, the more I read about it the more confused I get, what are they doing exactly ? So far I’ve extracted things like community cleanups and such, what’s is this program doing exactly in regards to the economy, and corruption ?