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Terms and Conditions addition

June 29th 2009 04:43
A paragraph has been added to the Orble Terms & Conditions which deals with harassment, abuse etc. Comments and suggestions welcome as always.

Harassing, abusing, or cyber stalking (commenting on someone's blog or messaging someone when that person has asked you not to) other bloggers on Orble is strictly prohibited. Before blogging on Orble you should read information on the dispute resolution and three strike policy. If requested to do in the course of an enquiry conducted by an official body (such as the police or another government agency) On Topic Media may hand over information from our logs such as your email address and any IP addresses you may have used, along with times of use.
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Three Strike Policy

June 24th 2009 22:32
The new "Three Strikes and Your Out" policy outlined in the Dispute Resolution Post will be enforced from tomorrow -- the 25th of June Australian time -- the delay is to give everyone a fair amount of time to read this post.

If you place a comment or post which insults or demeans another blogger, rather than arguing the point, and that comment is reported, you will be given a warning sent to the email address used to register with Orble. Three warnings and your account will be banned.

All debate on Orble should be conducted in a civilised manner. I realise this utopian vision will not happen in reality, and most likely a number of bloggers will be banned. However the amount of time Orble support is spending on simple childish bickering is getting out of hand.

Orble staff will be the final judge of what is considered an insult or demeaning. Be aware that much of what has been allowed to continue in the past as "colourful debate" will now be considered beyond the pale.

This policy will most likely only have an impact on a very small minority of bloggers on Orble. For everyone else -- thanks for keeping Orble a fun and friendly place.

Regards,
Jon.
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Dispute Resolution on Orble

June 24th 2009 04:36
A reminder to everyone on how to go about resolving disputes and reporting abuse and spam on Orble. Most people won't have any trouble however occasionally it does happen and you should know what to do.

If you spot any spam, offensive material, or if you think another blogger has stepped over the line of acceptable behaviour then click on the "Report" link which you will find underneath each post and comment.

This will notify Orble support of that post/comment who will then take appropriate action, which is usually deletion of the offending post/comment and sometimes the deletion of the offender's Orble account.

Note that Orble cannot be monitored 24/7, especially on Weekends. It's just not financially viable to do so. Please have patience. Your report will be attended to as soon as we are able. Asking nicely will most likely get a better response than abusing the staff.

If the offending comment is on your blog feel free to delete it once you've made a report as all the relevant information such as IP Address, author, and content will have been recorded.

If you have further comments to add to your report send them to support -at- orble.com, however you should always make a report first so that all the relevant information is recorded.

Once a member has been banned from Orble we will do our best to keep them off, however this is very difficult. IP Addresses usually change each time someone's modem connects to their ISP and so provide a very poor way of identifying someone over periods of more than a day or so. An ISP can usually identify someone from their IP address and a time of use however only law enforcement agencies will have much success in obtaining this information.

If you suspect that another blogger is a banned blogger who has returned then report a post or comment they have made and then contact support -at- orble.com. Unfortunately I cannot ban a blogger because someone suspects they are someone else. I need a matching IP address or cookie (with can be changed by anyone with a little technical know-how). Of course if the new blogger again breaks the rules or admits that they are the old blogger then they can be banned again.

If you are having trouble with someone on your blog (and are sick of deleting comments) then I recommend that you set your blog to enable comment verification before publication until the problem passes.

If you feel that someone has broken the law and want to take it further then contact the relevant authorities. If they think your complaint warrants consideration they can then contact Orble and we will provide as much information as we can to help the investigation. We cannot hand over personal details such as an IP address to other bloggers to conduct their own investigation.

If you inform Orble that you will be proceeding with legal action against us (instead of contacting the authorities) then all correspondence between Orble and the blogger must then proceed through legal channels. This includes your Orble account and blog which we will need to suspend until the matter is resolved so please be careful what you say in the heat of the moment.

Where we judge that a blogger has got out of line to an extent which does not warrant an immediate ban we will issue a warning via the email address they used to register on Orble. Once a blogger has received three warnings they will be banned from Orble.

As a general guideline we encourage robust debate on Orble, however try not to insult or abuse other bloggers. Argue the point, rather than the person.

There is a link to this post in your my.orble.com menu for later reference.

Orble cannot check every post and comment. We rely on the community to let us know about offensive material and abuse so please be pro-active.

Thanks,
Jon.
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Orble Password Reset

May 11th 2009 12:44
A number of passwords have been reset due to recent problems with people taking control of other accounts.

If you find that you cannot log in, simply request a password reset and you will be sent your new password via email, which you can then change on my.orble.com if you wish to


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Orble Christmas Party

December 8th 2008 23:39
Well it's that time of the year again and the third Orble Xmas party will be held on the Sunday the 14th of December from 6pm at the Dolphin Hotel in Surry Hills, Sydney.

412 Crown Street


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The State of the Orble

November 24th 2008 11:22
Hi Everyone,

The list of things that are considered "offensive" in the context of the Orble T&C has always included attack posts (those focused on insulting a particular blogger) however given the latest round of flaming I'll be trying to police it a little more rigourously


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Servers

September 15th 2008 23:53
We've been having some problems with the servers this morning. The search engine robots decided to hit us all at the same time which was causing problems for the database server.

Things have hopefully been stabalised


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Inactive Blogs Reminder

September 9th 2008 00:03
A quick reminder that if your domain blog is inactive for longer than 2 months it will be placed on the inactive list and possibly given to a new blogger.

We need to do this in order to keep the Orble network active. If the network has too many dormant blogs then it's to everyone's detriment


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Do you live in Sydney?

August 25th 2008 06:15

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You can now start your own niche social bookmarking site (like Digg.com or Reddit.com) on Vimu.com.

Simply create a Vimu channel and start sharing interesting or entertaining webpages (news, articles, videos, pictures


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