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The rules of conduct
1. General
It
is expected that each participant, whichever country he or she is
from, will show respect to our Russian motherland, to her
multinational culture and her main religions (Christianity, Islam).
It
is forbidden to make personal remarks in polemics, and to use
racial, ethnic, ideological, religious labels as defining
characteristics of other participants.
2. Comments
The
comments should be related to the article or the issues, raised by
the article.
It
is expected that each participant will defend his or her point of
view, while tolerating other opinions. The attempts of hijacking
the discussion are not welcome.
Expressing your opinion, try to show good manners. It never harms
to be polite.
When entering a discussion, support your viewpoint with good
arguments. Before disputing your opponent s view, indicate your
points of agreement.
One
participant may use one nickname. Using multiple nicknames is
forbidden, a creation of the virtual “support team”
leads to cancellation of the user s registration.
Avoid typing in all capital letters, this is equivalent to shouting
in usual etiquette. Avoid extensive marking your text by color,
etc.
In
comments it is forbidden :
Quotations which are too long, using fiction literature
instead of the arguments. It is recommended to minimally quote your
opponent and show URLs instead of quotations, when possible.
Posting entire articles from mainstream media (use a
two-sentence “teaser” and a web-link instead, or suggest
your source for publication), flooding the discussion with short
(meaningless) messages, duplicating posts.
Excessive use of taboo words (“adult language”).
In many cultures it is considered as an offensive, and you may be
qualified as a provocator, see below.
Personal remarks and threats to your opponent.
Discussing moderator s actions. In case of your disagreement
over moderator s decision, you may justify your opinon by email. The
answer is not necessarily guaranteed.
3. Moderation
The order at the forum is maintained by the moderators and administrators.
Comments
are postmoderated, that is they appear under the article first and
are checked by moderators afterwards.
Comments which violates the rules can be removed, partly or in full. Moderators may
explain the reasons for editing, but are not required to do so.
First two occasions of breaking the rules of the forum are accompanied
by notices by moderator. The third occasion is qualified as systematic
and leads to a suspension of rights of posting. Multiple breaking of
the rules leads to a cancellation of the registration.
If
the off-topic comments contain provocative remarks, aimed at the
emotional engagement of possiblly larger number of other
participants, then it is defined as flame or trolling behaviour. It
leads to a notice by moderators and a suspension of rights of
posting.
The
time period for suspension of the rights is decided by
administration in each particular case, depending on severity of
the violation.
Changes
and addenda to the rules.
The
administration can change these rules to prevent the violation of
the general principles and to avoid fruitless discussions.
The
changes to the rules are applicable starting from the moment of
their publication.
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