Hi guys,
Renie just dropped into the Consistent Policy on Plagiarism thread to tell us there are a bunch of goodies in the works. That's great news.
One of these goodies is a new set of guidelines for the forum. Very good news.
I don't know if this is going to be expressed well in these new set of guidelines but I think this is the crux of our interactions on the forum so I'd like to take a moment to say it.
Indiblogger has the potential to be an awesome forum to connect Indian bloggers wherever in the world they may live. It is active and engaged and helpful, perhaps much more so than many other blogging communities out there. There are many members here, some old, some new, most inactive unfortunately but the few who are active are superactive.
Superactive members are often friendly and helpful to newbies esp re: Indiblogger specific problems and I'm sure we all hope they never stop.
However, I'd like to make a plea to everybody who is active or superactive here to make sure we engage on substance and merit of comments. In other words, debate and conquer through logic and reasoning and the power of persuasion! Don't attack. Don't insinuate, don't make allegations you have no proof for, don't flame, don't troll.
Doing so will ensure that while discussions may get heated from time to time, they will never get personal.
And yes, for those of you wondering, I have direct personal experience of the wrong type of interaction on this forum including persistent unrepentant flaming, outright trolling and hijacking a thread, nasty allegations and insinuations, even nastier uninvited attacks on a blog and blogging style and topic.
Lastly, the non tech bloggers around here like to stay engaged with fun little games. Please bring your sense of humor if you choose to join. Don't spoil the party for the rest of us.
The sappier of us would even say IndiBlogger is like a family. Not me, you understand. I'm not that sappy. 
But I'm pretty sure there are people here who would say that. 
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