Standards and guidelines

The Nation's webblog aims to create a community on cyber world where people around the globe can get together anytime around the clock.   In this imagined society, we can enjoy freedom of expression. We are free to exchange views, news, information and knowledge.

 However, absolute freedom never exists on earth. It is an obligation of all to minimize limitation of liberty setting common fundamental rules for the game to protect basic right of all members in this community.

 We would like all members to be aware of hereby 10 guide lines anytime you enter this society.

 1)      We welcome all intelligent debates and dissents but please bare in mind that whenever you strongly disagree with any bloggers on any particular issues, attack their views not their personality. Character assassination is against a media ethic. We want the blogs to be a community but it is still a community within a media so that media ethic could not be avoided.

2)      As long as we are a site of English language media with international audiences, please keep posting in English. Other natives in voice or audio forms are also welcomed only with English translation or excerpt.   

3)      Please be polite. We don't welcome any rude words. All bloggers shall refrain from using "four-letter-words" out of proper context.  

4)      Please respect other people's beliefs. You can employ facts, information and reasons to convince the other to agree with you but cannot force people to believe to disbelieve in what you want.

5)      Please do not drag our website into the territory of "hate media". We don't tolerate any forms of hate speech, racism, sexism, fanaticism and any kind of phobia eg. Sino-phobia, Islam-phobia and Thaksino-phobia. Such speeches must be removed immediately we find them.

6)      Cyber world is relatively free and could be accessed beyond boundary but please be notified that the host never escapes from legal arms of its homeland. We reserve the right to remove all posts that may put us in legal difficulty, such as libel and defamation in accordance with Thai laws.

7)      Think twice before publishing any contents as your expressions would last long in our archive and such statements could become references with legal binding.

8)      The blog looks like something personal but actually it is never a personal diary as long as public could see it. Any contents should be relevant and reliable otherwise it could damage our and your own creditability.

9)      The blog is interactive, please do not post and leave. The bloggers are encouraged to return to check reactions from other fellows as your speech might be either misunderstood or misinterpreted.

10)  The Nation is print-based media, please be well informed that we would like to have your sharp, intelligent, insightful posting to be published in our printed outlets.