Comments on: Dave’s ESL Cafe Review [Warning: Is it Legit?]

By: dom

dom — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 20:10:45 +0000

hi, i was working 10 years in china. i know a bit how to find jobs in asia. i didnt needed dave esl because in china was so easy find a job in any esl job website at that time. i dont want use organization to find me a job, no buffers, i go through the chinese agent or just the school direct.

dave esl is the best without going through a teaching agent organization website, they give some jobs goes straight from those asian ladies teaching agents close to the schools.

for the cautious people that never taught in the world, u should go through safer websites, that got websites multiple buffers, 3 levels of agents, 10 kinds of diplomas, then u will give up and stay where u are.

dom

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 05:29:24 +0000

Wow guys this is an eye opener. I really appreciate the time you took to write this. It helped me a lot to be careful when looking for a legit job.

By: Caitriona Maria

Caitriona Maria — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 14:57:38 +0000

In reply to Jason Williams. Thanks for the insight, Jason. It seems like a lot of questionable incidents occurred that didn't help the site's reputation. Your comment doesn't surprise me; I've heard similar complaints.

By: Jason Williams

Jason Williams — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:45:40 +0000

Dave’s ESL cafe died due to heavy handed moderation. There were several incidents leading up to this not the least of which was the shutdown of the competing site English Spectrum over the backlash from Koreans over the thread “How to molest your students”, which was in fact a gag post written by a Korean American but nonetheless was received badly in the press. Shortly thereafter Dave, fearing retaliation for similarly tasteless topics of conversation regarding Korean women etc, began heavy handed moderation. In the end you could be banned for just about anything but it seemed that Dave was one of the first pioneers of what today we would call “woke” administrative policies. I had a cyber spat with a lady who used to work at my school and she revealed detailed contact information about me on the site. I complained to the moderators about this seeing how it was listed as a “no-no” but I was promptly banned and the lady still freely posting on the site despite that revealing personal information about other posters was considered an infraction. Most of the more sought after posters were banned for one reason or another and the site just died.