If your posts have been getting deleted, here might be the reasons why.

Every month on the Hindu Voice discussion area, we’ve had to delete more than several hundred posts on account of swearing, terrorizing, intimidating, incitement of racial and religious hatred, threats of violence and kidnapping, threats of turning other peoples’ refrigerators off amongst other things. This problem has gotten worse as our subscriptions have increased so much so that last month three posts have had to be deleted for every one post that we let through and now we’ve ended up with a number of disgruntled readers. There are also those who’ve complained to us that some of the post that have been let through are apparently contrary to the views of Hindu Voice and as such should not have been allowed. Taking all that into consideration we have decided to reiterate and clarify our editorial policy

In the true Hindu fashion we encourage free speech and frank debates amongst all our readers. We want intelligent self-expression and discussion and will publish material reflecting a wide range of different views and opinions. But we would like to clarify to both those who think they can say whatever they want, in however abusive language they please and also those others who think that just because someone disagrees with Hindu Voice they should no be allowed to post comments, that our belief is in freedom of speech and not the ABUSE of freedom of speech.

Everyone, whether they are modernists, liberals, traditionalists, post-modernists, Islamists, Christian right-wing fundamentalists, neo-Nazis, Socialists, Communists, Fascists, Gandhians, Anarchists, Government spooks, Khalistanis, P.N Oak followers, RSS/VHP/hinduunity.org fan-clan or of any other mental persuasion that we’ve had the audacity to leave out – you are all welcome to disagree with each other and also with us on Hindu Voice. But there is a dignified way of voicing your dissent no matter how perplexed you are by someone else’s argumentations.

So here is our editorial policy yet again

Another reason for post being deleted/edited is excessive length. Contrary to what some may think, the comments section of our blog (or of any blog for that matter) is not the place to write your essays or more commonly cut and paste other peoples’ essays. When the comments on an article go longer than the article itself you know there’s a problem.

People who haven’t been following the discussion from the beginning see these big blocks of text and it’s very off-putting. So please understand that if your posts are over 400 words they are very likely to be heavily edited if not completely deleted as they detract from the discussions. In the future please keep the comments to a normal length and if there is any particular write up that you think is relevant to the discussion, put a link to it.