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Community Guidelines

The upGrad Community Guidelines emphasize the importance of meaningful contributions to the discussion forum, encouraging users to post questions and responses that benefit fellow learners. Users should avoid posting irrelevant questions, unnecessary responses, and maintain civility while keeping discussions organized and clean. Reporting inappropriate content is encouraged to maintain the forum's relevance and quality.

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Community Guidelines

The upGrad Community Guidelines emphasize the importance of meaningful contributions to the discussion forum, encouraging users to post questions and responses that benefit fellow learners. Users should avoid posting irrelevant questions, unnecessary responses, and maintain civility while keeping discussions organized and clean. Reporting inappropriate content is encouraged to maintain the forum's relevance and quality.

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upGrad Community Guidelines

1. Role of the discussion forum


You have access to a group of passionate professionals, that will become the biggest source of
learning throughout the duration of course. This network with your peers is going to form large
part of your program experience. You peers will be your friends, critics, colleagues, your
sounding board for your doubts throughout this journey.
The value of the community heavily depends on your contribution - on what you upvote and on
what you mark as inappropriate.

2. What kind of questions should I avoid posting


● Whether you are asking a question or starting a discussion, first ask yourself - is this
going to help other learners of this program. If the answer is no, don’t post.
● Asking for technical support, deadlines, reporting errors etc. about course
content should be done directly to your buddy through the support tab, and not
on the discussion forum.
● If you see that the question you want to ask already exists on the discussion forum, then
don’t create a new question. You can upvote the original question.
● Is the discussion you are posting more than just mindless social fun? If no, then don’t
post it.
● If you see a question which you believe does not belong in the peer discussion forum,
do report it as inappropriate. You have the option of doing so on the post itself. It will
keep the community relevant for everyone. TAs will keep a track of flagged posts and
remove them if found inappropriate.
3. What kind of responses should I avoid giving
If you are thinking about writing a response, pat yourself on your back :) It is because of
helpful learners like you that makes this peer to peer discussion forum valuable. It makes
learning together fun and social. However, there is care to be taken while adding a response.
● Thanking other peers is appreciated but doesn’t add much value to the discussion
and hence can be avoided. If you like a content (discussion / responses) upvote it
instead of responding by “thanks” or “that was great” etc. This also ensures that
person who posted the content gets credit for it.
● I have the same question / I was about to say the same responses. Think from the
perspective of your fellow peer. No one would like to read too many responses
like “I feel the same”, “Great question” “Great answer”, “thanks” etc. In situations,
always upvote the question or the answer you want to appreciate.
● Is your post a response to original question or a follow up to another response? If
it’s a follow up, then please add a comment to the answer you are replying to
instead of creating a new response.
● Be civil and polite, we are here to learn from each other. Let’s not shout or yell,
writing with caps lock ON is yelling. A good civil discourse is about respecting each
other even though you may not agree on everything.
4. Keeping the discussion forum clean
● Put some thought while choosing the topic. Posting a discussion in a wrong or
irrelevant topic would be counterproductive.
● Don’t cross-post the same thing in multiple topics.
● Don’t divert a discussion by changing it midstream.
● Don’t sign your posts with your name at the end. Every post has your profile
information attached to it.
● Don’t prefix your post with Hi All / Hi Friends. Greetings are implicitly implied.
● Don’t unnecessarily use multiple lines while posting something. It gives you more
screen space, but it is annoying for the reader. Make readers life easier through
formatting, not harder.
● Keep questions crisp and readable. Use descriptions with the question to elaborate.
● Fill in your profile if you haven’t already and put up your profile photo. It helps to
attach a face to discussion.
● If you see a problem, someone not following these guidelines, do not hesitate to report
the question, answer or comment. If we agree with you, the content will be removed
from the forum.

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