[admin]

This forum exists to facilitate civil discussions and debates. Condescending, rude, and annoying remarks and insults are awarded with temporary and permanent bans. People who seek actual discussion and debate about the issues will find the forum rules intuitive and common sense. Those who seek to bully, insult, annoy or spam will not last long on the forum.

The basic rule here is to discuss the issue and not the poster. You can tell when you are probably violating this rule when you start to use the phrase "You are ________." Once you start to say "you are", you have generally begun to start talking about a POSTER and not that poster's STATEMENT or OPINION. Criticize and thwart the opposing person's STATEMENT or OPINION, if you wish, not the poster him or herself.

The following are the rules all posters agreed to in the registration agreement:



Rules on civility, posting quality and moderation (1-4)

Insults are not allowed and posters who react to disagreement with condescension or rudeness generally are awarded with a speedy ban.

The following are prohibited:

Rule 1: No direct personal attacks (i.e. Person X is an idiot). That means no insults in posts or in private messages.

Rule 2: No indirect personal attacks (i.e. I dislike Person X's idiocy).

Rule 3: No trolling. Trolling is defined as baiting or provoking another poster with rude, disrespectful, or condescending remarks. Trolling also includes posting up comments that de-rail thread topics with nonsense.

Rule 4: No speculation about the personal lives of other posters.

Rules on civility, posting quality and moderation 5-9

Rule 5: Moderators keep discussions civil, enforce forum rules and are also bound by forum rules. They give their own political opinions, and their opinions are not the opinions of the forum. Moderators maintain the quality of political discussion and therefore moderators are empowered to edit and delete posts as well as to ban posters who they deem as degrading the civil atmosphere of the forum.

Rule 6: Personal aggression, condescension, rudeness, racism, bigotry, are banable offenses. The forum does not tolerate personal drama pushed into political discussions and forum business. Posters who make their own membership an issue for discussion open themselves up to the possibility of a moderator closing their account for them.

Rule 7: No public questioning of individual moderator's fairness are allowed. Any complaints about individual moderators must be reported using the report post feature.

Rule 8: Do not create more than one account.

Private Messages

Rule 9: Insults conveyed over private messages are treated the same as insults on the forum. When infractions are awarded, a private message is automatically sent to the offender. Mouthing off to the moderators will result in additional penalties.

Enforcement of Rules

Item 1: Moderators do not personally look at each post. If you see a post that breaks forum rules, REPORT the POST in order for a moderator to become aware of that post.

Rule 10: The forum takes no responsibility for any of the views expressed or the information released by people who join this forum and express opinions or post information.

FINALLY: Mashada.com is private property and you are our guest, and we reserve the right to delete any message. Membership on Mashada.com is a privilege, not a right.


These rules are created to maintain an atmosphere of discussion, as opposed to an atmosphere of distracting and annoying personal attacks. Happy posting!!

[conteh]

Membership on Mashada.com is a privilege, not a right......

Nice one Mr. Moderater

[Sanaa-]

Admin, Nina swali, how come when you are viewing the forum list, in the News Headlines Category you see a news headline but when you click on that category, that headline is not the first you have to keep searching through other headlines.

I've been clicking to read the news "Theft hurts telecoms" but sipati. I'm a bit impatient.

[Sanaa-]

Originally Posted by Sanaa-

Admin, Nina swali, how come when you are viewing the forum list, in the News Headlines Category you see a news headline but when you click on that category, that headline is not the first you have to keep searching through other headlines.

I've been clicking to read the news "Theft hurts telecoms" but sipati. I'm a bit impatient.

Problem solved

[Fraglante]

Does this then mean that even the PRIVATE messages are moderated? Where then is the privacy in that?

Secondly why have you not yet deleted the many posts by a certain some one who keeps calling people Idiots? And subsequent replies that call that certain some one gay?

Thirdly are you doing anything about the many hate threads directed toward “Mashada Women”? You need to.

[african hotty]

Well said sista !!!

And another thing is that some people post so much stupidity on a daily basis here about women and many hatred postings to and when you go to the home page you see them as top posters for the week......huuuuraaaah

[okiedokes]

"Rule 7: No public questioning of individual moderator's fairness are allowed. Any complaints about individual moderators must be reported using the report post feature."

Ok, in my books that is called censorship. There is no provision of a forum on which members can directly express their opinions. May be that should be a new feature on the site. Also, it is hard to keep track of what the admins do to solve problems. Transparency is best.

People have been complaining about spamming, yet I still see advertisements all over the place.
The recent issue of hacking into inboxes hasn't been solved yet. The threads are still on the forum with people's personal information. Yet the thread about multiple handles which was leaked(hence violating members' privacy) was immediately removed. We still haven't received an apology for that.

If the admins make an income by operating this site then I believe it is also a priviledge to have us the members use your site considering there are other competitive sites. It is therefore also in your best interest to provide good services to your clients(members).

PS:If my opinions result in me being banned so be it, but all you would have proven is that as africans we can't handle the truth, and more importantly that even when we have shortcomings, we find it hard to accept correction.

[sugarNspice]

Rule 7: No public questioning of individual moderator's fairness are allowed. Any complaints about individual moderators must be reported using the report post feature.


How do we know who the REAL moderator's are? (I have yet to see a moderator that is listed below on the forum). How often do they check forums? Can we have a better idea of their hours here (once a week, once a day...)? How to we contact the moderators? As I have made attempts in the past and had no response. What if the practices of the moderator are unethical? Is there a chain of command? How do we know the level of communication is going beyond one moderator?