I love the fact that whenever something serious is being discussed, we have never heard of people like bat_man make grand entrance to express their personal agenda of hate and intolerance. Obviously you are predisposed to make baseless accusations and make things look bad, specially when you don't even know what you're talking about. Can you elaborate and elucidiate what you mean by hacking your ip address? It's amusing to say the least when people talk about things they don't even understand. Thanks for providing the much needed comic relief during these tough economic times.
Cowboys, I have posted my policy regarding moderation many many times and I am happy to repeat that threads are not moderated as much as you'd like it to be, but as you can see in the disclaimer, I reserve the right to use my discretion in deciding what needs to be done in order to run this site. That disclaimer protects me from your accusation of hypocrisy because, I am using my rightful discretion in deciding what to do here.
Ok here's what I do and don't do:
- I don't monitor every posting here
- When people notify admin on few threads, I normally do not act upon it unless there are over 10 notification then I realize I have to look into it.
- As far as bathroomcoffee issue, this is the 2nd time someone has directly communicated me about thier reservations towards this issue. My procedure in these kind of issues is when I get communicated regarding someones behavior once, I send a reminder to the user. If i get another complaint then I send a tougher warning, and on the third time I either send last warning or ban the user. In this case, as I have said this is actually the 2nd communication with me regarding Bathroomcoffee and in fact you will be pleased to know that I have already sent him a final warning regarding use of foul language about a month ago. If you look into his postings from a few weeks back you will not see any foul languages. My thoughts on a good discussion is that use of foul and derogatory languages discourages discussions and I intend to try to keep it clean.
- I try to ignore few instances of foul language use or anti social behaviour in sajha, because we as human beings have to release our emotions sometimes and if someone chooses to release it in sajha once in a blue moon. I want to ignore it because he/she is better of releasing it in sajha rather than in the real world out there where his/her release can have worser consequences. But, if this kind of behaviour begins to seem like a habitual thing then I have to step in (sometimes users like yourself help me identify such behaviors) and try to maintain the harmony of the site.
- As far as accusations regarding favoritism towards friends, I totally understand why some people may want to address that issue. I am very happy to inform you that I have gained a lot of friends through sajha. A lot of times sajha users will have personal contact with me and it is very rewarding to make lot of friends and acquaintances through sajha. Just because I have had contact with a person and consider them as friends, perhaps I might overlook his/her action one or two more times, since I am only human. I don't claim sajha or myself to be a machine with machinistic accuracy in pinpointing violations and making bans. But, please do be assured that any continuation of such actions which jeopardize or tint the repulation of sajha or myself will be dealt with fairly no matter who the person is because my reputation is in line here along with sajha for which I have put in a lot of effort. So please don't think that I will just stand by and let someone make it a habit of tarnishing my own reputation.
- There have been many cases of discontent among a lot of sajha users regarding users like Bathroomcoffee, Samsara, Nas, to name a few. My policy is not to act upon issues unless I am notified of it through direct communications. As I have stated in about us page, policy issue needs to be discussed or communicated with me directly. If you post your discontent in an obscure thread it's likely to go unnoticed. I also base my judgement on the users popularity in sajha because I don't want 20 people to send me email as to why BC, Samsara or Nas was banned. They may have contributed in many ways but their way of dealing with dissent may be wrong. I don't want to sound or act like a dictator in banning them without giving them few chances. After all we're only human. If I feel that their contribution far outweighs their periodic tantrums then I want to coax them as their well wisher to stop throwing unacceptable tantrums in sajha and to maintain the general harmony of the site.
- The kind of actions that I have to consider to immediate banning are users who are predisposed to use foul language, who are adamant about their way of thinking, who are utterly castist and racist in their thinkings These kind of people may think that they know everything and they are right in whatever they are saying. These kind of people do not want to accept that there is some chance that they could possibly be wrong, and they want to force their way of thinking upon everyone else including myself when I try to intervene and I don't have patience for this kind. I'm trying to run a sajha site and there's no room for such intolerant people who try to foul mouth their way or bully their way to force their thinking on others.
- I also have a strict policy on advertising in kurakani. I have seen many sites turn useless because people are there to milk the popularity of sites and in the end it becomes nothing else but ads galore. If people continue to advertise their sites after being warned then they will be banned. I generally ignore couple of advertisings but if people begin using multiple usernames to bring their ads up and stuff like that, then it has to be hasta la vista. If you want to make money off sajha, then you need to share something with sajha too. I have had many instances where people post their banner ads for their events but after the event is over they don't have the need or moral sense to pay for thier banners. Sorry for digressing but I wanted to get that in.
Ok, I think I have covered most of the things I wanted to cover. It started to get too long so I decided to stop now. One last request that I want to make is that I am just another user like you who just happened to be a web developer and developed this site, and I'm not super smart, or able to make perfect decisions on everything. I try my best though. I envision this site for common nepalis, me being one of them, and respect for other individuals is a requirement - well most of the time.