Posted by: San November 1, 2006
Answers to few questions raised in sajha
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In the past couple of days there have been few questions raised regarding sajha policies and I would like to attempt to answer those. 1. Nas's World: As any other user, Nas is free to share images in Ramjham, as long as the images are not pornographic in nature. Although the women are scantily clad, non of the images are pornographic, hence there is no need for admin to intervene on his album. Matter of fact I would like sajha to be guided by the spirit of majority rules - and the views on his album is evidence of majority choice. I would be happy to have a poll regarding this but it would be unnecessary. As far as copyright is involved, each user is agreeing that they are not aware of any copyright infringements when they upload the images. If any form of copyright infringement is notified by the company holding copyrights, then the images will be removed. This discussion however did have a valid concern for people who don't want to see the images on the front homepage of sajha, and I have attempted to take care of this by creating a "HIDE" link next to the Recently Updated photos link. Visitors who prefer to not see the uploaded images can simply click on the HIDE link and the uploaded photos will not be shown on the front page on that computer browser. 2. Advertisements in Sajha Kurakani: Almost a year back, I wanted to experiment with a totally unmoderated forum. The result was not very appetizing. You can see the end product of it as it exists at - http://www.nepaltalks.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=1 A non moderated forum quickly turned into advertizers playground. In the above forum, there is no posts besides individuals advertising their products and website. In order to dissuade people from making sajha kurakani an advertising hell, we ask that people do not advertise their websites in the Kurakani section, but instead use the classifieds section for any advertisements. Sajha is flexible to let users share interesting sites. Sometimes even multiple attempts at promoting sites are ignored. But, there is such a thing as excess and when someone seems to be intent on promoting their sites multiple times a day, or just too many times, then those postings will be moved to the classifieds section, or in some case even deleted. As far as complaint as to sajha promoting Indian sites and removing Nepalese sites that's absolutely ridiculous allegation. If a person shares an indian or nepali site in the spirit of sharing, there is no red flags raised, but if a person shares any site with the intent of promotion - which is found out very easily by the person's IP or email and the number of times the person has promoted the link, then there will be a red flag raised. So the key phrase about sajha kurakani is the 'spirit of sharing'. If your posting is moved over to the classifieds/advertisements section for the 'spirit of advertising', it should not be taken personally!! 3. Money - the root of all evil: There were some baseless allegation that people who donate are given special priviledges. Everyone falls in the same catagory when it comes to sajha official business. If someone wants to donate or contribute some money to sajha, that does not make the person immune from sajha policies. Having said that, sajha policy is very flexible and lenient, along with the fact that we don't have 24 hours moderation of the site. Few ones will be overlooked simply because of the fact that the postings are not checked 24/7. Few ones will be overlooked because they occur very infrequently. If it starts to become a trend, then action will be taken. Again, let's not indulge ourselves in tasteless baseless allegations and try to understand that any seemingly unfair steps were taken because of a users continuous inability to follow general etiquettes. Let's try to keep the sajha kurakani clean and free of continuous advertisements and limit your promotion to 1 or 2 postings in the 'spirit of sharing'. Best wishes.
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