General Forum Guidelines (please read before posting or participating in the forum) - Russian Ukrainian Belarus Travel Music Woman Dating News

	The Russian Meeting Place: A place to meet people and talk about all things Russian... International Discussions about Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Travel, Music, Russian News, Ukrainian culture, Belarusian Dating, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kiev and other intelligent topics about life in the former Soviet Union.

Pages: 1

General Forum Guidelines (please read before posting or participating in the forum)
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)

Posted by: Khashyar

Welcome everyone to the Russian Meeting Place discussion forum.

Our forums highlight a variety of topics, from Russian culture to Russian marriage and relationships to fiance issues and other subjects.

There is also a Russian language section of the forum where Russian speakers can communicate in their native language (or non-native speakers of Russian can try their hand at expressing themselves in the Russian language). We have added Spanish, German, French, and Italian sections to the forum.

Before you can post or reply to a message, you need to register on the main page of the forum.

Message Board Guidelines and Rules (if you have any questions about these guidelines, please feel free to ask):

1) We strive for, in our forums, to have the freedom to fully and completely express our views, while at the same time treating others with respect. Through this kind of respect for others in our forum, we hope that we can all share different views and create a rich and stimulating environment for everyone.

2) The administrators of the forum respectfully ask forum users not to "flame" or be disrespectful to others. (This forum is a flame-free zone. ) No personal attacks are allowed in this forum, because it creates an unpleasant atmosphere here, and is counterproductive to an open and comfortable forum environment. Please also read our guidelines for "forum etiquette" here.

3) If you have a personal disagreement with someone in the forum, please discuss your personal disagreements and resolution of your conflicts in private messages ("PM"s) rather than expressing your personal conflict on the public forum.

4) Please do not curse in the forum... I do not want to limit freedom of speech, and would like a free flow of differing and respectful ideas, but I feel that it creates a more positive and welcoming atmosphere for everyone and for the free expression of ideas if we can express our thoughts, whatever they may be, in an articulate way without cursing. (To help with this end, some curse words have been added to an exclusion list in the forum software and will be automatically replaced with star symbols ("*") in posted messages.

5) I think that it is obvious, but... please do not post nude photos, or anything that would not be appropriate for this forum. If you have questions regarding this, please ask...

6) Please do not advertise any services or other websites on this forum without the permission of the administrator. It is o.k. to post helpful links about things like calling cards, visa services, immigration info, etc., in order to help and serve our forum members and guests. But we ask that advertisers and business owners please do not post links for your businesses or services here without asking the forum administrators first. We have a website links page (which is accessible through the main page of the website), where you can submit (and exchange) a link to us for your website. We want to keep our forums advertisement free in order to provide a more pleasant commercial-free environment for our guests and forum members. (You can read more about posting advertisements and links in our forum here: http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/...?&threadid=3199).

7) We have a special request regarding writing messages about other forums. So as to respect Lena's and my work and efforts in developing these particular areas of the website, we respectfully and kindly ask that you do not post links about other forums in this forum. We just feel that it works against our efforts and the many hours that we spend in developing the RMP forum. Thank you for your understanding and courtesy regarding this. We would like there to be a free flow of helpful information in the discussions in the RMP, so we are allowing links to specific threads in other forums that illustrate a specific point, or contribute a relevant idea to a discussion in the RMP. But, please do not place links to other forums that are merely advertisements or promotions of other forums.

8) Users who post messages in the discussion forum do so with the understanding and acceptance that the forum administrators have the right to edit or delete the post at their discretion. Also, users of this forum who make a post agree that once a post is placed in the forum, that there is a 24 hour period that it can be deleted or modified, and that the post may not be deleted by the user after that time without permission of the forum administrators. Any posts in the forum become copyrighted by the Russian Meeting Place. We have this policy because other posters have posted their messages based upon the information of other posts of a thread, and if a user removes his or her posts within a thread, that it can do damage to the threads and continuity of the discussion forum and be unfair to other contributors to the forum.

9) Please follow and respect the leadership of the forum moderators. Lena and I have personally selected each one of them, and we trust their judgement in making sure that threads follow the forum guidelines. Please contact Lena or me if you have a disagreement with any of the moderators about their leadership.

Thank you very much, and please contact us if you have any questions or comments.

I hope you enjoy being a part in our conversations and discussions...

Khashyar
forum etiquette

Posted by: Khashyar

I revised/ updated these forum guidelines a little bit today...

If anyone has any feedback about the guidelines, please feel free to express your thoughts and opinions about it.

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

Hello,

I just revised the forum guidelines to make things a bit clearer and clarify any confusion regarding posting website links in the forums (It is o.k. to post virtually every link, as you can read in the new revised guidelines above)...

Thank you for everyone's participation in the conversations in the forums. I enjoy all of the conversations that we are having... Thank you, Everyone, for contributing your thoughts and ideas...

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

There have been some minor revisions to the forum guidelines...

Thank you,

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

I just added a new section for webmasters and business owners regarding appropriate ways to add their website URLs to messages in a new section called: "Guidelines for posting website or business advertisements in this forum." It can be found here: http://www.russianmeetingplace.com/...?&threadid=3199

It is still against our forum guidelines to post blatant advertising in the forums, but you can post genuinely helpful information in the forum, and then add your website's URL to your "Signature," which will show at the bottom of all of your posts.

Please go to the above link for more details.

Thank you,

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

"RMP guidelines and rules about posting news articles"

Hi Everyone,

The Russian Meeting Place wants to respect the rights of news publishers and authors, most of which require asking permission before posting entire articles/ essays and photos from their websites.

So, we need to apply this policy regarding posting news articles and essays posted in the RMP forums:

1) Please do not post entire news articles/ essays without the publishers or author's permission.

2) You can post small sections and quotes from news articles, if you are including them in a message to express a point. So, you can post portions of an article in your message. In American law, this is called "Fair Use." If you are reviewing a book or news article or song, then you can post portions of the work and then give commentary about it.

3) You CAN POST entire news articles from government websites and government news organizations, since what they write is owned by the public. These news sources incude: Voice of America, government news sources from Belarus and Russia, and any other news sources that state that it is o.k. to re-publish their articles.

4) Please give credit to the owner and author of the article.

Thank you for following these guidelines.

Khashyar

Posted by: Khashyar

Because we would like there to be a free flow of idea in the Russian Meeting Place which benefits all RMP members and visitors, we are amending the forum guidelines to permit links to specific threads in other forums that help illustrate a point being made in a discussion on the RMP. I think that this is a fair "forum link" policy, and will benefit the RMP Community. Please refrain from posting links to other forums that are merely advertisements or promotions of other forums.

Thank you,

Khashyar