Blogging Guidelines

All blogs on Freeloft are subject to the following blogging guidelines:

1. Bloggers are free to decide the categories and tags of the post.
2. All opinions, observations and remarks made by any blogger in a blog post are attributable to the blogger, not to Freeloft. Even though personal insights and opinions are promoted, no scandalous/controversial content should be posted.
3. All facts should be verifiable.
4. All blog posts have to be non-commercial, should be neutral, no-self promotion, and should have an open source or community theme
5. All images used in you blog post will not be more than 400pixels wide and 400 pixels high - either copyrighted by you or under fair use, with credits.
6. All blog posts will be licensed under creative commons attribution, non-commercial, sharealike, india 2.5 license
7. Bloggers may re-post blog posts already published elsewhere (or republish elsewhere blog posts published on Freeloft Blogs), if the above conditions are met in the following manner:
• the post should only have a 100 word (max) abstract of the post
• should have due credits at the end of the post in the following format: "This post was originally published at [Blog Name, with link to the post] by [author name, no link] on [date, no link]"
8. Any blogger that violates the blogging guidelines more than thrice, will be banned from the website for a period of one month. any blogger to be banned thrice from the website, will be permanently banned
9. All blog posts will be subject to moderation by the moderation team, and will only get published once they are approved. The decision of the moderation team is not disputable. however, the blogger may appeal against disapproval of posts.
10. Any of the mentioned guidelines are subject to change, without any notice.

References

1. Why is providing credit and citing sources important: even though we don't follow the wikipedia's format and markup for citing sources, you will find some good reasons and methods of providing due credit and citing sources at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources
2. When providing external references and links in your blog post, try to follow the general idea given at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links
3. When using images in your post (especially when you dont own the copyright to the image), try to the follow general idea here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy
4. What is neutral content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
5. What is verifiable content: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
6. Understanding the fuss about copyrights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights