FAQ

Can I share my birth details and expect predictions through this Forum?

NO, here we answer astrology learning doubts only.

If I give my planetary positions will this forum help to interpret?

NO. To judge, several parameters and the horoscope have to be considered. The forum is only to clear the doubts of astrology learners.

Refer to this video to know which kind of questions are answered in the forum.

Can I expect instant replies to my astrology learning doubts?

We usually receive 3500 to 4000 questions/comments monthly, some times it will take 4 - 8 weeks to reply. once you start any discussion do wait, your patience is greatly appreciated!

Do you recommend Remedies?

We do not recommend remedies like pooja, Parihar, yantra, mantra, gemstones. Etc. We believe that astrology is a tool to interpret.

How to watch all astrology learning videos in a sequence?

Follow Learn Astrology in Telugu playlist that gives all the astrology learning videos in a sequence.

Community Guidelines

You’ll find a vibrant and growing community of smart, enthusiastic people at RVA. Our goal is to foster conversations that are helpful, informative, and fun. We very much would like you to help us do just that, so here are some guidelines for how to participate — either on our site or out in the wild of our YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram comments.

THE SHORT VERSION

We’re so glad you’re here! We hope you will help create great conversations in our community.

Do politely ask us questions and let us know what you like and don’t like about a specific article, topic or video, or the ideas we talk about in it.

Don’t be a jerk, call people jerks, or react to jerks. We’ll remove bad stuff when we see it.

Respect and help the moderators. It’s a small team of dedicated, caring humans working hard to make things better.

RULES OF THE ROAD

Here are things that will get your comment or forum post removed and quite possibly get you banned. Note that this is not a comprehensive list. Our moderators reserve the right to remove anything we deem inappropriate.

Spam: Zero tolerance, of course! If it comes from a human or a robot, spam will be deleted. This includes self-promotion. Generally speaking, promoting yourself here will be treated like any other spam.

Personal attacks: Don’t attack or insult another user. It’s not helpful and it doesn’t make RVA a friendly place. This includes calling other members trolls.

Doxxing: Don’t reveal someone else’s personal information. ( Like date of birth, time of birth, place of birth, phone number, email id or address etc.)

Illegal activities: Posting links to illegal downloads, ways to steal service, and other nefarious activity is not OK here.

NSFW material: Nope, not allowed. Even images or links that could be considered borderline are not acceptable. A good rule of thumb is that anything beyond PG-13 will get you in trouble, but we reserve the right to remove any post we deem offensive. This goes for pornographic material, vile language, gore and generally gross stuff.

Racism, sexism, and other discrimination: Attacking entire classes of people is just like attacking a single person: we’ll ban you for it.

Trolling: “Trolling” is a big, messy term, but we know what trolls are and we won’t tolerate it. If you’re abusing the good conversations here at RVA, we will take your comments and posts down. This includes taking a thread off-topic, by the way.

Spreading misinformation: We are not a platform for spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation and will remove posts promoting obvious falsehoods.

Complaining about coverage: We cover a wide array of topics, not all of which are easy, comfortable, or reflective of your personal views. This applies doubly to review scores. While we’re not against discussions of our coverage, plainly stated accusations of bias are usually an indication that you’re not trying to be a productive member of the community.

Commenting on someone’s physical appearance, voice, or style: Let’s keep the discussion to the content, please. Even if you’re writing what you consider a compliment, it will be removed.

Multiple accounts and throwaway emails: We don’t allow multiple accounts per user. Using a disposable email address signals to us that you might not be here for the right reasons. You also may not create accounts designed to impersonate another person.

Cross-posting: Don’t make duplicate posts across different forums — it clogs things up and fractures the conversation.

Above all, our team of moderators works to keep the conversation here friendly, engaging, helpful, and productive. If we feel a comment or forum post is harming that endeavor, we’ll take action.

See any of the above? You can help us out by flagging (more on that below). Any comments that are a reply to spammy / inappropriate / trolling comments will also be deleted with the original comment, so don’t reply — just flag!

ISN’T THIS CENSORSHIP?

Well, no and yes. We’re trying to foster great conversation and we will remove comments that harm that endeavor. You’re free to say whatever you like other places, but not here. At RVA we have a different standard than the rest of the internet, working very hard to keep the conversation informative and fun. The bottom line is that the editors and moderators have the final say on whether it fits within our community guidelines.

HOW TO REGISTER AND CUSTOMIZE YOUR PROFILE

You can register by clicking “Login/Signup” at the top of the page and then you can either register directly or register with your Google+, Facebook, Twitter. You may be interested in checking out our privacy policy and Terms of Use if you’re the legalese type.

The next step is to customize your profile. You can upload a photo and tell everybody a little about yourself. You can also edit your account settings to link your google account and set up how you’d like to read comments. You can always edit your profile by clicking your own name in the upper-left hand corner of the site.

HOW TO POST AND COMMENT

There are three ways to interact on RVA. Here’s the basics, but there’s much more information down below.

Post a comment: We love comments, and simply by registering you can comment on any discussion on RVA. Comments are organized into collapsable threads to make it easy to follow a conversation. There are also some really great keyboard shortcuts on comments — they’re listed on the right of the comments area. If you realize you’ve made a typo, you’ll have 90 seconds to edit your comment before it’s set in stone.

Join a Forum: RVA forum is a great place to talk about astrology, vedic, western, and kp astrology. In order to post in a forum, you need to “join” it. To do that, click the “Login” button in the upper right. When you do, your membership to the forum will appear on your user profile.

Get in touch: Have a tip? Want to contact the moderators? See a bug? You can do all of that right here.

MODERATION

Questions about moderation: We’re happy to have a discussion with you about it — in private. We’ve found from long and hard experience that public complaints about moderation just leads to people trying to “game” the system. If you have a question about moderation, hit us up on our contact form and we’ll have a talk. If there’s a big policy change or something we would like to say publicly about moderation, we’ll post it in our Meta forums and update this document.

Helping out our moderators: Moderators work very, very hard with your best interests at heart. Please help them out by flagging inappropriate comments and take heed when they ask you to change your behavior. Note that most of our moderators are volunteers freely dedicating their time to help make things better. They don’t speak for the site but still deserve your gratitude.

Becoming a mod: We don’t have an application process, it's based on observing their behavior & conversations for several months.

COMMENTS

Comments are a lovely way to talk about the stories, forum posts, and videos you find on RVA. They can also be a lot to keep up with, so we have some tools to make it all easier. You can preview your comment before you post it. Every comment also has a few links associated with it:

Reply: Use this to reply to that specific comment. Your reply will be threaded to that comment.

Like: We love great comments, we know you do too. Click the “Like” link to vote up a comment and see it to get more love and affection from the site.

Flag: This is the link you use to report a post to the moderators. Use it on spam, on personal attacks, or on racist or sexist language. Do not use it to report stuff you disagree with or to hassle users. Our moderators work really hard, please help them help you!

It’s important to know that comments are threaded and if the top comment in a thread is a problem, we may delete it, and that will delete all the replies to it. So if there’s an inappropriate comment and you reply to it with something eloquent and heartfelt, there’s a very good chance that you’re highly intelligent and meaningful comment will nonetheless be lost.

We do not like when you try to join in other’s conversation. Never reply to other’s threads.

Do not share other’s YouTube videos, do not share birth details.

we don't like it if someone is sharing other website links in our community area or any places related to RVA.

FORUM POSTS

Ask RVA offers a full WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor on forum posts.

Our editors and moderators will be watching out for great content to promote on the site as well as inappropriate content. In other words, all the rules above about spam, abusive behavior, and basic human decency apply double to forum posts. You can help! Like or Flag forum posts to bring them to our attention. If a forum post is terrible, please flag it instead of commenting — even if the comments are great, we will remove forum posts that run against our community guidelines.

Finally, please post in the appropriate forum. Have a question about RVA? RVA is the place. Want to talk about RVA itself, we have a Meta forum. We have a general RVA forum for that. Not sure where your post belongs? Ask in Meta or ask us directly.

COMMENTS VS. FORUM POSTS

Although there is no hard and fast rule for when you should make a comment on somebody else’s post or when you should make a new forum post, we do have some clear guidelines. Essentially, if there is already a post on a topic you’re interested in talking about, it’s better to comment on that post than to make a new one. We have a very large search box at the top of the forums and we encourage all users to search before you post. Duplicate posts may be closed or removed.