# Community Standards

- Link: https://www.thailand-business-news.com/community-standards
- Published: 2013-05-28T14:11:22+07:00
- Author: Boris Sullivan

Thailand Business News provides a range of opportunities for registered users who
wish to discuss the issues raised by the content we publish through our articles
and blogs. Users must register by using one of a number of social media logins.

We want to help make these discussions as welcoming, open and safe as possible for
the entire community, and anticipate that members will work with us to achieve that
aim. We expect members to meet certain standards in any of their contributions to
discussions, and these standards inform our moderation policy.

## The following activities are not acceptable

 * Personal abuse of our authors, of commenters, members or of any other individuals.
 * Posts which contain incitement to hatred of groups or individuals, or foul or
   profane language.
 * Posts which promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities,
   promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual, or promote any
   act of cruelty to animals.
 * Contributions which may put Thailand Business News in legal jeopardy, because
   they are unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory,
   vulgar, obscene, libellous, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially,
   ethnically or otherwise objectionable
 * Comments which are not relevant to the topic in question
 * Posts which appear to be promoting commercial products or acting in a spam-like
   fashion.
 * Posts whose purpose is to promote propaganda or external links, rather than adding
   to the particular discussion taking place on thailand-business-news.com.
 * Posts which create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
 * Posts which “stalk” another.

We post-moderate blogs and members’ posts. This means that a post will not be reviewed
prior to its posting. Members may report posts which they regard as being in breach
of these Community Standards or in any way abusive, offensive or inappropriate.

After a post is reported, it will be reviewed by a moderator and, if the post is
perceived as breaching the Community Standards, then it will be removed by the moderator.
If part of a post breaches these Community Standards, then the entire post will 
be removed. We do not edit members’ posts. Thailand Business News reserves this 
absolute right to remove posts and its decision is final.

In reviewing a post which has been reported, the moderator will assess as to whether
it prima facie breaches the Community Standards and you will appreciate is not in
a position to assess the merits of any underlying argument regarding the factual
basis for the post or any underlying dispute in relation to the post.

It is a condition of registration as a member of the community that these Community
Standards be observed by the member. Any member who persistently ignores or breaches
these Community Standards, or our terms and conditions, may have their posting privileges
withdrawn and may have their registration cancelled.

Thailand Business News does not accept any responsibility for any statement posted
by a member on thailand-business-news.com. Thailand Business News is not liable 
for any loss caused to any member or any other person as a result of a posting appearing
on thailand-business-news.com or a person or member viewing or reading any postings
on thailand-business-news.com.