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Turkish Class Rules
All members of www.TurkishClass.com (TC) are advised to read and follow the rules below.
Appropriate action will be taken when the rules are not complied with.
Writing in the Forum
1. Multiple registrations are prohibited and are grounds for immediate account deletion.
2. Vulgar, obscene or sexual screen names are not allowed.
3. The official language of all forums is English with the following exceptions and details:
• The language ‘Teaching Turkish’ forum is Turkish only.
• ‘Language’ and ‘Turkish Translation’ forums can have Turkish texts according the nature of these boards.
• In all forums in your messages you should include short and easily understandable Turkish words like “merhaba”, “hoşçakal”, “teşekkürler”, “çok iyi” etc. and some simple sentences like “Çok güzel olmuş.”, “Tebrik ederim,”, etc. .
• For practising and helping practising you may use Turkish in all forums as long as it is for educational purposes.
• When using Turkish, please try to type in Turkish characters if you can. Our double click dictionary doesn’t work if a Turkish or English word isn’t written properly.
• Since many TC members are not native English speakers we don’t expect a perfect use of English Language but please check your messages for spelling mistakes before sending.
4. When starting a new thread in the forums, make sure to use an informative title. Meaningless and exaggerated titles should be avoided and may be deleted.
5. Forum messages should have meaningful content. Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) nonsense posts, or such like
6. Consecutive messages and cross-posting across different forums, or starting two identical threads should be avoided.
Do not open a new thread on multiple forums. Find a suitable forum and post it there only.
7. You may not type in all or mostly in capital letters since it’s not only hard to read but also considered to be shouting and can be rude.
8. Do not post vulgar, hateful, threatening, derogatory, racist or obscene comments on this site.
Any such content will be deleted. The user account of the author of such messages may also be deleted if it repeats.
9. Avoid personal disputes and arguments. Personal correspondence postings should be kept at a minimum.
Personal attacks or insults directed towards other users will not be tolerated. Basically if you don't have anything nice to say then just don't say it all.
If somebody posts an insulting comment do not reply to it. It will only result in starting a flame-war.
Instead, send a Private Message to one of the forum moderators and they will take care of it.
10. Discussion on politics or religion and religious matters is allowed as long as the topic does not get personal or agressive.
If a moderator or administrator thinks that a message or a title may have legal implications in Turkey or in the US, that message or title will be deleted.
11. If you don’t agree with a moderator send a Private Message to the moderator or to one of the administrators instead of posting in the forum.
Such posts may be deleted.
12. Any message with more than a few sentences copied from another source must give the source with the copied text.
Excessive copying from other sources must be avoided.
Instead of pasting a whole article please post a link to the article and your thoughts about it in a few sentences.
Uploading Pictures and Essays
1. Uploaded pictures of Turkey can be deleted any time, and subject to the decision of the reviewing administrator.
Pictures that are too small, of poor quality or considered of little interest or relevance will probably be deleted.
2. Uploaded pictures of Turkey must be descriptive, showing an aspect of a place in Turkey or a face of Turkish culture.
3. Pictures of Turkey uploaded by a user must belong to the user or the source of the picture must be appropriately referenced.
If the uploading user does not own the uploaded picture, he/she must get permission from the owner of the picture before uploading.
4. Uploaded essays have to be the unique work of the user. Works copied from other web sites or other media are not allowed.
5. An essay uploaded by a user can be rejected if it doesn't meet the basic quality criteria of the reviewing administrator
6. Uploaded personal pictures can not have sexually explicit content, or they will be deleted.
This can also result in deletion of the user account of the uploader.
7. All the uploaded content (pictures, articles, forum postings) belongs to the user who uploaded it.
The uploader has the rights and responsibilities of this content.
Uploader, by uploading content, gives TC only the permission to display the uploaded content in TC web pages and frames.
Using TC chat
1. Rules of courtesy and mutual respect must be followed in the chat conversations. Using vulgar language or harrassing other users are forbidden.
Other TC Rules
1. TC administration can delete a user account at any time without notice if one or more of the administrators decide that a user is abusing the site or
not complying with the rules.
2. TC is not a dating site. Using TC for such purposes is not allowed and such action will result in account deletion.
3. Views of moderators and administrators do not represent the views of the site. TurkishClass.com website is not responsible for the opinions of its users.
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