Posted by: San October 17, 2011
Closing chapter on some recently banned users
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Few recently banned users are still being vocal in and out of sajha regarding their personal distaste towards my actions, which is understandable and I have tried to outline few things one last time for their benefit.

Imagine the following scenario in real life.

Scenario 1.
You meet person X say hello and in striking a conversation you tell him. "All else
have failed in Nepal, I hope politican A does something." As soon you say that the other
person says "you are a terrorist, I hope your mom and dad die because you are a
terrorist supporter."

Scenario 2.
You meet person y say hello and strike a conversation where you mention a factual
statement that "I don't really support any political party, but obviously politician B won
in the election so i'm sure there are people who support him." As soon as you say
that the other person says "you're a maoist supporter. You don't have to hide the
fact that you support maoist. You support the terrorist."

Scenario 3.
You meet person z say hello and strike a conversation and the person goes on to make
hard core sexual innuendos about licking some girls juice. Uses bad language and
constantly keeps repeating how's he's so famous almost a god.

Let's say each of these scenarios repeat at least 3 or 4 times whenever you meet
these personalities.

These scenarios do not take place in real life because we are bound by social etiquette otherwise known as common respect. Respect, decency and courtesy is what sets us civilized humans apart from animals.In a civilized world, you don't start abusing, accusing or bad mouthing people for having a differing opinion than your own.

However, some people are very prone to commit this kind anti-social behavior in the
internet because the internet hides their personal identity. They think just because
noone knows them and their own personal credibility is not at stake, they can abuse
and bad mouth people who have different opinion than them.

This kind of behavior is cowardly because these people are hiding behind a mask of
anonymity to indulge in ANTI-SOCIAL behavior. They are taking advantage of the
anonymity provided by the internet to abuse others.

These people may come up with a lot of idealogical jargon to hide their own personal issues but the basic fact is that
they act like cowards when they use the anonymous mask to attack other respectable
users who do not deserve this kind of treatment in sajha or anywhere.

Sajha simply does not support this kind of cowardly, anti-social behavior.
Sajha is lenient in that these people are tried to reason with but unfortunately
immersed in the drug of anonimity and virtual ego, they fail to want to embrace the
common civilized trait of respect, decency and courtesy. Some of them won't stop crying foul near and far.
My only request to them is please get real!

To date, noone has ever been banned/censored in sajha due to political or personal
bias - and to those who want to make everything about politics, please realize that
not everyone has to be politically motivated like yourself so please don't judge
everyone according to your own prejudiced standards.

I stress on the word 'respect' a lot, it should not be mistaken for the enormous
respect bestowned upon someone for being a hero or doing something great. That kind
of respect is earned, but a common respect, decency and courtesy for fellow human beings is a virtue and expected out of normal civilized human beings. When you meet another person, you always need to have a certain level of respect for the individual. If you want to abuse the person, steal from him, hit him, injure him, or attempt to inflict any form of pain, then you lack the respect for the person. Those kinds of actions are generally known as anti-social actions, which arise from lack of common decency and respect. When I stress on respect in sajha, as a normal human being, I expect common decency and courtesy towards each other. Respect is a two way street. If one does not show respect, then the other person does not have to feel obligated to show the same.

I make it a habit of requesting such users to show respect towards other users but when they make it clear that they do not have the common decency to treat others with respect then I have no option but to ban their anti-social online personalities, so that users in sajha do not have to be threatened of being abused by these few users who like to take advantage of their anonymity and treat others without any decency.

Needless to say, sajha does not harbor any ill will towards them and wish them success and happiness in all walks of their virtual and personal lives. It's regrettable that any expectation of common decency and courtesy was too hard for you to handle.
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