You'll notice a new Ignore link underneath each comment on your blog when you are logged in.

Clicking on the Ignore link will prevent that blogger from leaving any further comments on that particular blog. Note that it does not report or delete the comment, use the other links for this if required.

The ignore link should also have some effect on anonymous commenters although this is not guaranteed.

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Jon.

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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

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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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