KPandit Yahoogroup Code of Conduct Rules

KPandit, a Kashmiri Pandit Discussion Forum, hosted by Yahoogroups!, is a platform for sharing of information, ideas and views for the Global Kashmiri Pandit (KP) community.

Subscribers/Members are encouraged to contribute personal views as a positive feedback for the community. We strongly discourage negativism because it is contagious and in addition, it hurts, annoys, and discourages people in the community.

Code of Conduct Rules:

1. This forum shall be used as an open forum to share views on social, religious, cultural and political issues with fellow KPs.

2. Subscribers are encouraged to provide personal views/comments about any relevant KP issue, comment on the public actions of our community leaders, and participate in discussion of any issue that touches our community.

3. The purpose of this eForum is to provide a healthy and encouraging environment for exchange of information, views, and opinions. In order to facilitate and maintain such an environment, subscribers are required to practice normally expected decency and be respectful of others.

4. Subscribers are required to not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous,  or invasive of another's privacy.

5. This group is configured to not accept any attachments. Anyone interested in dissemination of a large file should get in touch with the Moderator, who will arrange to put the required file on one of our websites. Other members will be informed about the file and its location on the web.

6. Any person posting a news item on this eForum should identify the source of the news. The source can be any news-wire, newspaper, news-magazine etc., along with the date of original publication. It will help readers to refer to the original source and read the detailed news item and other related material, if they chose to.

7. All subscribers shall subscribe by filling up the subscription form.

8. Individual posts are held to contain the views and opinions of those that send the posts and not those of the owners or the moderators of this forum.

9. Participation in this forum is on a purely voluntary basis.

10. The terms of service and code of conduct rules will be available in FILES section of this forum's yahoogroup on the web and at Terms of Service and Code of Conduct Rules.

Enforcement of Code of Conduct Rules:

Moderators ensure that communications on this forum adhere to the stated Code of Conduct Rules. Moderators will operate with the following "rules of engagement":

• The moderators, individually and/or as a group, monitor the emails posted on this forum.

• If one or more moderators feel that a particular post is not in keeping with the letter (and spirit) of this forum, they will bring it to the attention of the remaining moderators.

• The full committee of moderators (or a majority thereof) will review the post(s) in question and deliberate amongst themselves as to whether or not it violates the guidelines.

• If a majority of moderators are of the opinion that the post(s) do indeed violate the guidelines, they will take one of the following actions depending on the severity of the violation:

  (a) If the violation is deemed a relatively minor one, an offline mail will be sent to the member who posted that email to the group. The email will advise the member what was found to be objectionable and (respectfully) request a change in tone and/or content of future postings.

  (b) A repeat violation within reasonable time will automatically trigger a temporary suspension from the group.

  (c) In extreme cases (hopefully rare), where the violation is deemed to be extremely objectionable, the moderators can decide to permanently suspend the member and remove him/her from the list. The member will not be allowed to reapply for membership for at least 6 months after his/her suspension.

• Decisions made by the moderators are final and are not subject to review or appeal.