Annoucement:: New Pj Spam Rule & About Topics Locked

[Jhanda_Amli]

Sat Sri Akal ji

First things First!!

Two New Rules To reduce the Spam on Punjabi Janta

Rule 1: "New PJ Spamming Rule"

The following One Word Replies will be considered spams. This will include but not limit to:
- Any acronym such as "lol".
- The use of an emote/Simley as the only reply (such as  :happy: )

The Spam Message will be Deleted without warning by Global Mod/Admin. The Mods/Admin Will Notify the Users when the spam is identified as follows:

   >First Spam identified - Spam Deleted and Users Name Notified in Topic.
   >Second Time Spam Identified - Spam Deleted, Notification in Topic and Notification at User Profile
   >Third Time Spam Identified - Spam Deleted, User Temp Banned for 1 Day
   >More than Five Bans - User permanently Banned.


Rule 2: "Limiting the Number of words required to post a reply"

We will be Limiting the Mimimum number of Characters that are required to be in the post in order to post a successful reply.
This rule is still in progress, but we will keep everyone posted as the rule is devoloped.



Now About Locked Topics:

A Rather "long" discussion has happened within the PJ Staff (Global Mods/Admins) regarding the Locked Topic for the past week or so. Reason being that we were trying to evaluate what went wrong.
So far we have a topic of more than 80 'Long' replies where

- Number of great suggestions (Pendu, Mishro, Dev and Grenade Singh)
- Some very harsh talking (Mostly by Me - Applozizes)
- PJ Staff members Yelling at Grenade Singh
- Dev And Myself getting Impatient, as actions were delayed
- Mishro Getting pissed and Moving Out on PJ
- Some good "LONG" emotional talks (by Mishro) .. Speaking the rights of a User
- Unwanted Hot arguements between Sub-Admins about what is right and what is wrong
- Lot of Talks that Administration is Pushing on User, with disliking the decision of Locking Topics
- And Best of all, Even Mishro getting pissed at Grenade Singh and Billu Bakra

All was done to find out that "What really went wrong, that we end up lossing the love from some of our worthy members!"
- And I mentioned all this, because just in case you consider that PJ Staff Dont worry what User feels about their Topics and Take things for graunted.

Now Why we came up with the rules:
First Reason - The Pj Community is Growing, it is very important for us (PJ Team) that we could reduce the Spam (one Word Replies/Simleys). As if we dont stop them now, it will start to multiply each day

Second Reason - PJ Team don't want that Punjabi Janta is consider a spam site by different search engines

Third reaons: - The Increase in Spam was sending the same updates to the search engines which resulted in the search engines checking the PJ Site more often and reflecting on its Speed.

More Explanation on the Second and Third in the next Reply


What will happen to the Locked topics:

Currently we Will be discussing on each topic that is locked. If a substainial reasoning of why the topic is locked is not provided. The topic will be Unlocked.
Four Topics has already being approved to be unlocked. - Dil Ki Feel Kar Reha ; If you Locked with the person Above you ; New Game - 3 Words and True False

Some alternatives Ideas also given by Mishro Today Morning. Discussion will be done on that and we will keep you posted.

Now Any Questions or Concerns