Updated: 1st April, 2021
Santals.com Rules
Santals.com exists to share ideas, perspectives and knowledge of thinkers, writers, storytellers and a platform for people to protect and preserve the knowledge of Santal Traditions, customs and institutions. We welcome thoughtful and civil discussion from a broad spectrum of viewpoints but we need to maintain certain decorum when it comes to expressing it in a public forum.
Each participant in our community is responsible for maintaining these standards.
In deciding whether someone has violated the rules, we will take into account the context and nature of the posted information, the likelihood and severity of actual or potential harms, and applicable laws.
Violations of our rules may result in consequences such as account restrictions, limited distribution of your posts, and suspension of your account. We may limit the distribution of controversial or extreme content.
Threats of violence and incitement
We do not allow content or actions that threaten, encourage, or incite violence against anyone or any community, directly or indirectly.
Hate speech
We do not allow content that promotes violence or hatred against people based on characteristics like race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, disease, age, sexual orientation, gender, or gender identity.
We do not allow posts or accounts that glorify, celebrate, downplay, or trivialize violence, suffering, abuse, or deaths of individuals or groups. This includes the use of scientific or pseudoscientific claims to pathologize, dehumanise, or disempower others. We do not allow calls for intolerance, exclusion, or segregation based on protected characteristics, nor do we allow the glorification of groups which do any of the above.
We do not allow hateful text, images, symbols, or other content in your username, profile, or bio.
Harassment
Santals.com exists to share and discuss ideas and knowledge. We don’t tolerate harassment. which includes:
- Bullying, threatening or shaming someone or posting things likely to encourage others to do so
- Reviewing businesses or products in a gratuitously harmful or abusive manner
Privacy and Reputation
We do not allow the following things:
- Posting copies of private communications between private individuals without the explicit consent of all parties to the communication
- Doxing, which includes not only private or obscure personal information but also the aggregation of publicly available information to target, shame, blackmail, harass, intimidate, threaten, or endanger
- Posting intimate or explicit images taken or posted without the subject’s express consent
- Content that violates others’ privacy, including sensitive or confidential information such as credit/debit card numbers, Aadhaar numbers, PAN numbers, non-public phone numbers, physical addresses, email addresses, or other non-public information
Restricted categories
We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in the following restricted categories of activity:
- Posts with political agenda
- Promotion of harmful conspiracies
- Facilitation of gambling or betting
- Facilitation of buying or selling social media interactions, including off-platform
Related conduct
We do not allow posts or accounts that engage in on-platform, off-platform, or cross-platform campaigns of targeting, harassment, hate speech, violence, or disinformation.
Spam
We do not allow spam on santals.com. All spam will be immediately removed from santals.com, without notification. While it is hard to define this content with precision or completeness, here are some representative behaviours we look for that are characteristic of spam:
- Posting content primarily to drive traffic to, or increase the search rankings of, an external site, product, or service
- Scraping and reposting content from other sources for the primary purpose of generating revenue or other personal gains
- Posting duplicate content, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts
- Stories where the content is clipped with the sole purpose of linking to the rest of the article on a different website
- Performing a disproportionately large number of interactions. particularly by automated means. This includes bulk, indiscriminate interactions, such as like, highlighting, or leaving notes
- Repeatedly using responses or other interactions as a method of promotion
- Participating in bounty campaigns or brigades to artificially inflate rankings for posts, accounts, businesses, or products
- Use or re-use content templates with slight modifications across multiple posts and accounts
For each of these behaviors, when we talk about “content,” we mean not only posts but also any other feature that allows you to add your own text or media. When we talk about “interactions,” we mean any feature that allows one user to interact with another, or with a post.
Paid, automatic, bulk, or non-genuine interactions
Santals.com depends on various user behaviours -like, follows, share-to determine what content to feature and make the site work well for everyone. So, we don’t allow artificial behaviours that skew this system and as a result, degrade or distort other users’ experiences. This includes:
- Buying, selling, or trading in accounts or account interactions -including likes, highlights, responses or other traffic
- Using services, apps, or arrangements that offer you more likes, or other interactions
- Registering accounts, posting content, or interacting with users or content automatically, systematically, or programmatically
Deceptive conduct
We do not allow deceptive conduct on Santals.com. This includes:
- Posting content or impersonating a person or organization in a way likely to deceive people.
- Using Santals.com for phishing or fraud. Don’t use tags, links, titles, or other metadata in a misleading way. Don’t link to or embed malicious or harmful code or software in your posts or comments
- Don’t use deception to generate revenue or traffic
- If you have received compensation, free goods/services or anything of value in connection with the topic of a post, you must make this clear.
Graphic content
We do not allow pornographic images or videos. We do not allow gratuitously graphic or disturbing media, even if it’s not pornographic.
Exploitation of minors
We do not allow content promoting the sexual or violent exploitation of minors, including the sexualization of fictional minors.
Promotion and glorification of self-harm
We do not allow activities that encourage, promote or glorify acts of self-harm, such as cutting, eating disorders like anorexia or bulimia, and suicide. If you encounter users contemplating or threatening self-harm, please report it to us via the form or email address linked below.
If you break the rules
We strive to be fair, but we reserve the right to suspend accounts or remove content, without notice, for any reason, particularly to protect our services, infrastructure, users, or community. If you attempt to evade suspension by creating new accounts or posts, we will suspend your new accounts and posts.
Notice
Upon investigating or disabling content associated with your account, we will notify you, unless we believe your account is automated or operating in bad faith, or that notifying you is likely to cause, maintain or exacerbate harm to someone.
Santals.com Content Guidelines
Editorial guidelines
Here are some best practices we suggest to help you have the greatest success with your articles and content:
Introduce yourself
Let readers know who you are and what you write about by completely filling out the user profile bio and avatar that shows up at the bottom of every post.
Use the right tags
You can tag your stories with up to five tags to help readers find your work. Accurately and carefully tagging your post will increase its potential distribution and exposure to the right audience.
Finishing touches
Use an appropriate title and subtitle to best reflect your idea. We strongly recommend scanning for typos before publishing and sharing.
Use quality images
Santals.com posts with one or more quality images relevant to the content perform better both on Santals.com and when shared on other networks.
Double-check to make sure you’re not violating copyright or licensing with your images. Free resources like Pexels, Pixabay, and Unsplash are great for sourcing Creative Commons-licensed images.
If you violate these Member content rules
Santals.com reserves the right to review posts or accounts at any time and remove from the Member section for content that violates our guidelines, or Santals.com general rules. In deciding whether something has violated the Rules and Guidelines, we will take into account things like the context and nature of the posted information and applicable privacy laws. Repeated violations of the Rules and Requirements will result in permanent ineligibility to participate in the program.
The Editorial team reserves the right to alter, tweak, correct or add in the content the contributors submit. By writing or producing content for Santals.com you agree to the condition that the version which appears on the website may or may not be the exact version you submit to us.
Each and every submission needs to meet a certain quality level in order to be published. The editorial team reserves the right to decide what gets published.
For any other concern, you can contact us at mail@santals.com