Judicial Murder or Plain Manslaughter Re: # 18

Please do not link in large images. You are welcome to simply provide a link.

Katrina: An Abdication of Responsibility Re: # 1

Copying and pasting Chowk messages is not a funny matter. Please show some maturity.

Close Encounter This board is being closed. Enough has been said. Please refrain from discussing / speculating on other people`s nicks on chowk: instead send an email to help @ chowk.

We also request your cooperation in not bringing Unplugged digressions and discussions over here.

We regretfully suspend postings of both Salim_chauhan and Saminasha for two days as per new policies.

Close Encounter # 336 continued ...

This is to clarify that ``soulat`` was indeed a pseudonym (user id/nick) used by an existing member of Chowk and has therefore been removed. But none of the ids in question have anything to do with Farzana Versey.

Close Encounter Re #314 by tddysam on August 31, 2005 12:45pm PT
[On the subject of multi-nicks, methinks Soulat is none other than Farzana Versey]

tddysam,

If you want to volunteer information please do so about yourself. There is no need to imply false and baseless speculation about others.

Farzana Versey is columnist and regular participant on Chowk and as she states below she has never used covers of pseudonyms to write here.
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To Farzana,

Please accept my public apologies for this and several other personal attacks you have suffered on Chowk. There were occasions where chowk-staff could have and probably should have (debatable) stepped in to moderate.

Sincerely

Close Encounter Re: # 319

salim_chauhan it is. and baskin robbins sounds good. i`ll be in your town next month. perhaps hamidm and urstruly can join as well. and why not bj, dalit, arjun_m and gujjubania too. we may have a more interesting and less volatile chowk in the making.

On a serious note. I request others using mutliple identities to volunteer your duplicate nicks as well. You can send feedback message with details.

Close Encounter Re: # 302

Now please stick to this user id - ``ranger``.

Close Encounter Salim and gujjubania: From this point onwards use only mannu404 and ranjit respectively. Your other ids like salim_chauhan, premwalla, ranger etc will be removed. We would have preferred to send this message in email but there are way too many email addresses to know what you check.

On a general note chowk has provided features like filters and personal ignore lists to solve squabbles amongst interactors. We recommend you use these features to avoid confrontations which lead to direct attacks.

Also anyone who uses interaction space of an article for settling quarrels will be suspended to avoid digressions.

Lastly, if you want to bring someone’s comments to our attention for action then send feedback using the feedback form only. Posting it in interact space will not necessitate immediate action and will only result in your comments being removed.

Close Encounter This post is to acknowledge all the comments and remarks for improving the interact space on Chowk. We believe the combination of following two recommendations will be most effective and have clearly stated how these will be enforced. Please be informed.

1. Each interactor should use a single identity on Chowk
2. Chowk guidelines should be enforced more rigorously

Here is how we plan to enforce these guidelines:

1. Multiple ids of registered interactors will be removed
2. Posts containing crude language will be filtered and removed in extreme cases
3. Interactors posting abuse, attacks, and hate etc. against other members will have their interacting privileges suspended for a short period and the specific comments will be filtered or removed

We invite and welcome you to share this responsibility and enable us to apply these guidelines by informing us (using the feedback form) of specific instances with references of user ids, article names, and interact numbers.

The feedback link to send can be found in the footer of each page as well as on top of the interact box.

Now, let us move forward from here.

Close Encounter A lot has been speculated and said here which requires a response. First and foremost, Temporal is not part of monitoring and filtering interacts on Chowk therefore he has no conflict of interest and is free to post his independent opinions on Chowk.

Secondly, we will be introducing new ways to address the issue of managing the interact space on Chowk and will expect all members to participate in maintaining the openness of interactions here.

Sincerely

Muslims and the Road to Perdition mannu404 and saminasha,

Please take your discussion off this interact space. These comments will be removed fro here.

Chowk Staff

Jerry’s Pakistan To all interactors,

If your comments are not related to the article please take you discussion to unplugged or priavte emails.

Repeated warnings will only result in disabling your accounts which means all your previous replies will also get removed.

Ayodhya: The Aftermath of the Terrorist Attack Re: # 13

What you describe here is client side javascript behavior as already explained by some other chowk members.

Losing My Religion Chowk InterAct! space is for discussing ideas presented in the article, we expect members to respect this space and advise you to take other discussions either to unplugged forums or your personal correspondence.

Doomed If They Do, Doomed If They Dont All replies that include personal attacks will be filtered across articles. Interactors are requested to focus on the message and content of the article. Misuse of the Interact process will result in removal of that reply. Repeated misuse will result in removal of the interactor.

How green is their valley? All replies that include personal attacks will be filtered across articles. Interactors are requested to focus on the message and content of the article. Misuse of the Interact process will result in removal of that reply. Repeated misuse will result in removal of the interactor.