Forum Rules & Guidelines

[Sewadar]

FORUM RULES

Please review the following moderation rules before posting. Not following the forum rules will result in putting the member on moderation.

A member will be given a warning and put under-moderation for:

1. Insulting, name-calling and labeling other members; this includes both the initiating person and the person retaliating.
2. Spreading rumors about other person on the forum.
3. Never-Ever post any other person's picture without their consent. You may post pictures of public figures such as politicians or of any person speaking in public and or pictures from public event. Marriage pictures and facebook are private.
4. Defamation of other characters are not allowed. Please use "Report this Post" feature to report.
5. Writing derogatory comments about different jathas of the Sikh panth. Any particular practice of a jatha can be questioned but must be done so in a respectful and non-offensive manner. derogatory comments such as "Cultish mindset" or "Bhasuria mindset" are now considered as derogatory terms on our forums. Please do not use such.
6. Insulting any Sikh Shaheeds of any era are certainly not allowed on our forums.
7. Indirect personal attacks, sarcasm towards another member's posts and a negative tone of speech are also liable for a warning without any warning.
8. Death threats, soliciting and private messaging bibis on the forum.
9. Supporting the Indian government for attacking Darbar Sahib and justifying the 1984 massacre.
10. Supporting excommunicated people like Kala afghana and ragi darshan and so on.
11. We do not support Sikh MI\issionary College Prachar and we will not allow anyone to use our platform for their prachar.
12. Posting adult or obscene audio/visual content on the site.
13. Posting topics/links against the basic principles of Sikhi.
14. Insulting Sikhi, Shabad Guru, Khalsa Panth, Akal Takhat, Sikh identity, Dasam Granth, Sikh Scriptures and calling Sikhi a sect of any other religion will result in the user's ID being disabled until further notice.
15. Supporting Anti-Sikh organizations/sects/cults and their affiliated websites. Pro views or justifications or posts that are for ANTI-SIKH organizations/sects will not be allowed on SikhSangat.com and will be deleted and the member will likely be put under quality control/moderation. Most of these organizations include those that have been declared as anti-sikh by Akaal Takht Sahib such as kala afghana, naamdharis, radhasuaamees, etc.
16. No personal attack on Jatehdars of Sri Akal Takht Sahib or other 4 Takhts regardless of whatever information you may have. Member may discuss about former Jatehdars but we will not allow anyone to talk negative of any current Jathedars.

**Asking questions for educational reasons is allowed but all posts must be approved by the moderator in that topic.


GENERAL RULES

• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Refrain yourself from writing any derogatory comments on any religion. Any particular practice of a religion can be questioned but must be done so in a respectful and non-offensive manner.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or such.
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
• Use the search function before posting. Chances are your question has already been answered.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules.
• Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.
• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• Private Messages received on these Forums are to be considered private and are not to be posted publicly unless the sender of the private message agrees. Also Participant shall not post messages containing personal phone numbers or addresses.
• Do not post messages that advocate harm or death to anyone, threaten the livelihood of anyone, or otherwise harass anyone. Do not send email, snail mail, phone, fax, or other messages to anyone if your intent is to threaten or harass, and do not encourage others to do the same. Do not take your disagreements off the message board and into the "real world," and do not do anything to try to harm or harass any member of this message board in the "real world."
• Stay on topic. Don't jump into an unrelated discussion and introduce a barely-relevant tangent in order to bring up your pet issue.
• Do not spam the message board.
• When discussing race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or religion, please exercise the appropriate level of sensitivity toward others and take extra care to clearly express your point of view. This will help avoid misunderstandings and undeserved accusations of bigotry.
• People who repeatedly and willfully break the rules, or who generally engage in rude, antisocial behavior, will be banned. It doesn't matter if you are a progressive or a long-term member of this board.
• Not responding to or ignoring moderator warnings can lead to suspension. We reserve the right to ban/suspend anyone for any reason, and to delete any post for any reason.
• Any threat or personal attack on any sewadar will result in direct ban. If you have an issue with a moderator you can open a ticket, but open attacks on the board or via PM will result in immediate ban of IP address.
• Insults made against other members on this board are not tolerated, even those made via PM. Warnings will be issued to offending members.

This forum has zero-tolerance for junk. Unsolicited advertisement links and Spammers will be banned immediately and all spam deleted on spot. Abusive and inactive accounts may be removed at moderators consent without any prior notice, to reduce database load.

[Sewadar]

Dear Sadh Sangat Ji, 

We are reaching 20th year since this forum is online. Our last update on forum rules and guidelines were 7 years ago and thought it is time for the revision since we have new members and time.

We kept this forum free of cost and no advertisement from day 1. We have no other intentions but to provide a platform for sikh sangat to come online and be free to ask anything related to our dharam. 

Keeping it simple, following are main points:

• Need to reach to us? Email SikhSangat@gmail.com and reply will be within 24 hrs
• Need to report something, do not email us but to use "Report this post/topic" option available on every reply/topic. Action within 24 hrs (if needed to fix it)
• No Meat topic allowed. We will not allow any pro-meat topics or replies regardless of any debate. 
• Nobody is allowed to make any attack nor any mockery against any credible Sikh Jathabandi.
• Respect others regardless of any differences you may have. Any mockery is not allowed.
• Bypassing ban words by using different choice of letters certainly not allowed. We are not strictly enforcing but please do respect our request on not overdoing on usage of such bypass of words.
• Gupt forum is not a place to discuss anything. The purpose of that sub-forum is to have discussion only on sensitive topics without disclosing your identity. We will continue to approve new topics but may move them to other sub-forums.
• Cannibis are now legal in many countries and state and so is Alcohol and Tobacco productions. We will not allow our platform to be used for the promotion of this issue. 
• It will take time to approve posts. Become member if you do not want to wait for the moderation. 

Keep the discussions safe for everyone. 

Waheguru ji ka khalsa
Waheguru ji ki Fateh