New Guidelines

[Administrator]

Dear Members,

We request all of you to practice self-restraint while writing words of appreciation and praise about Forum members or the in-charge of the center that you visit. Your sincere devotion, expansive goodwill and sentiments are well taken and fully appreciated by the board.

The forum was setup to discuss spiritual issues. So, please hereafter avoid making posts of such emotional expressions about individuals in this forum. If you want to express your devotional or other appreciation about individuals, please send your appreciation to the person you want to appreciate by emails or postal-mails. Please do not post those messages here.

Please do not post details that are inaccurate or cannot be verified. Do not mention names or indirect references that can help one guess the names.

Many members just copy content from articles and post it here without adding any thoughts of their own. Please hereafter share your thoughts, your experiences and your views so that the discussions are meaningful and the content is original.

The posts that do not meet these simple guidelines will be deleted without any further notice.

We bring to your attention the forum guidelines that we posted years ago.

Thanks for your understanding,
Administrator

The service of the forum is a cooperative endeavor. To maintain an environment conducive to quality and harmony, please agree to the following basic guidelines and requests before using this service.

1. We put the forums online in good faith, please use it in good faith.
2. Always be respectful of other users, the forum, and the moderators.
3. Be descriptive, specific, and succinct in your postings. This way your opinion and point is clearly understood and referenced. Remember, people from all over the world read here with English as a second language.
4. Please stay within the topic area of the forum you are posting a message in, and within any topic that another poster may have started.
5. The Mother's Service Society has published tonnes of content on spirituality, Please restrict your discussion to spiritual content.
6. Discuss issues - not persons. If you like a post or a member and want to thank him/her, please send him or her email.
7. Never write your feelings for that member as a post. Such posts will be removed without notice. Do not mention names of members and praise or criticize them.
8. Discussions about members' actions are welcome in email, but should not be discussed in public forums. This is out of respect for the members or policy involved.
9. This forum is not a venue for personal praise or private vendettas. Keep your personal business as just that - personal. This forum is not a venue for the resolution of personal disputes with members or mutual appreciation.
10. Since this is interactive, and everyone who participates in the forum is in it together, please treat others the way you wish to be treated. One way to guard against misunderstandings is to step back, read over your response before you post it.
11. Flaming or personal attacks are not allowed or tolerated. Should anyone use inappropriate language, start a personal attack, or engage in hate speech, they will be barred from all further discussions.
12. Please keep your language clean and decent.
13. Self promotional drops and whisper campaigns are strictly forbidden within the forums and will be edited out.
14. Claims of action, flames, and calls to action against any person will be removed.
15. Messages posted at this site are the sole opinion and responsibility of the poster.
16. Personal exposure without permission is prohibited. Anyone posting another members personal details without permission will be banned.
17. Users that have not logged into the system for more than a year will be removed from the system. They are requested to register again.
18. Please do not leave your account logged in all the day without any activity. Such users create stress on system server and they will face interruptions. Please log in when you actually use the forum.
19. All questions will be answered by other members and Super Moderators based on the works of Sri Aurobindo, The Mother and Karmayogi.
20. Please do not post external links in these forums.
21. Please do not post copyrighted materials.