Forum Rules:

 General Community Attitude

• Always keep in mind that  forum.trsiyengar.com herein after referred as "This Forum", is a Religious community with Hindu Dharma as its main Sanathana Plank.  

• Religious harmony, Unity in diversity, opportunity for every one develop and humankind upliftment are the main themes, please note this while you post.

• Our purpose is to share, help and support others

• Always display a positive, friendly attitude

• Be respectful of others' opinions

• Allow your fellow members to voice their opinions

• DO NOT deliberately start arguments. Debates are great, as long as they remain respectful!

• Always try to "give" back to our community. For each time you find help or answers here at This Forum, try to help someone else out in return. You may find that what goes around comes around...

• Give people a little time to respond to your requests. There's a lot going on in these forums and it may take a little time for people to notice and respond to your request. Please be patient.

• DO NOT just make a negative statement and leave the person hanging out to dry. Although you may consider yourself to be an "expert" now, try to remember that we were all new and learning once upon a time. Take it easy on your fellow members!

• Do NOT make threats or implied threats towards other members -- even if you think it's fun.

• Be polite, positive and assertive. Never allow your strong emotions to speak in This Forum

Inappropriate Behavior

• DO NOT Make Inappropriate or Offensive Posts - including threats, harassment, swearing, prejudice, slander or deliberate insults/name-calling, or other negative remarks about This Forum Members, its moderators and administrators, or your fellow members. Even if this is just your own personal opinion, RESPECT YOUR FELLOW MEMBERS

• Do NOT drag another member's personal matters into a forum discussions. unless the discussion directly posted by any of the member who brings his or her own matter into the discussion first. There's no point in ruining a good debate by accidentally (or intentionally) offending someone with a personal comment.

• We believe in integrity and respects what other forums have to offer. Because we realize members of This Forum may also be members of other forums, do not try to degrade or discredit other forums, their administrators and moderators, or their members. This includes slander and other offensive comments.

• DO NOT POST PORN or adult content. This also includes sites promoting activities such as drug abuse, gambling and links to sites containing such content.

• Even though this is an international forum, please make sure that your posts are written in English.

• We want this to be open to people of all ages, genders, races, and sexualities, so any inappropriate or offensive posts will be deleted

• Please DO NOT embed cookies in your posts in This Forum.

Forum Abuse Policy:

• 1st Offence - A polite Private Message from a Moderator pointing out the Forum Rules, in addition to the editing or deletion of the post

• 2nd Offence - Public warning on the message board plus deletion of post

• 3rd Offence - Moderators will discuss and possibly delete the user from the This forum

Depending on the situation, Administrator may bypass any and all of these steps and take whatever action is deemed appropriate to the circumstances or situation.

Private Message and Email Abuse Policy:

• DO NOT use This Forum as a basis for spamming or scamming our members.

• We take Private Mail/email abuse very seriously, and it will result in the immediate removal of your membership and ban of your IP address, without warning or notifying such offenders.

Our  NO SPAM Policy

• Please make sure that you are posting for the good of the community, not just for the sake of self-promotion :)

• Please refrain from posting affiliate links and press releases in our forums.

• Surveys are not allowed, unless you have been given permission in advance from a Site Administrator

• Do NOT use This Forum community for the purpose of 'Spam' or excessive advertisements! This includes forum posts, private messages, or emails to other members

• Our moderators reserve the right to edit or delete any posts they consider to be 'Spam'

• If we find that you are spamming our community, you will be warned by a Moderator or Site Admin, and it may lead to the deletion of your posts and/or the removal of your account from This Forum

Identity Theft

• DO NOT impersonate anyone whom you are not, regardless of who the other individual may be. Identity theft is illegal and will not be tolerated.

Multiple Posts

• DO NOT post the same topic in multiple forums. If you are unsure of which forum a thread should go under, just state that in your post, and a moderator will move the thread to the correct forum. Multiple posts are unnecessary and will be deleted.

• DO NOT post the same question multiple times in multiple threads in the same forum. If no one responds to your question or request, just post a reply to the same message thread again to bring the message to the top of the list so folks notice it.

Signature Restrictions:

• Maximum length: 3 lines

• No images or cookie requests allowed

• You may link to your site, but no illegal, pornographic or otherwise objectionable links are allowed

• Only one link per signature

Font Restrictions:

• Do NOT use excessively large font sizes, as it is considered to be "shouting" and will be edited back down to the default size by the moderators.

Image Restrictions:

• Unless otherwise stated, if you post an image in the forums, please keep the image size under 50K, and preferably under 300 x 300 pixels

• All avatars, or as we call them, member photos must be of you & yours only. Images of characters or graphics of any kind will be removed when found. Please do not post any objectionable photographs; objectionable images will be removed by the forum administrator. Please co-operate to maintain the dignity of this forum.