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Orble News - November 2007

To Frida the Spammer

November 26th 2007 22:41
This is a message to Frida the .cn domain comment spammer!

I delete your spammy comments every day, so what is the point? Don't you notice that all your comments have been deleted? You must spend about 20 minutes every day spamming Orble sites with comments containing links to your .cn domains and it takes me about 30 seconds to delete them all. Don't you see that it's futile? Haven't you got better things to do with your time, like banging yourself over the head with a hammer? Please?

This message also goes out to the World of WarCraft gold digging spammer. Although you are not anywhere near as prolific as Frida, at least she/he/it has the decency to try and disguise her spammy comments.

Do yourself a favour (and me) and give up!

Jon.
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Paid Posting

November 20th 2007 00:45
I've noticed a few people are starting to do paid posts again.

I don't want to ban this on Orble (for the moment) but please consider not doing paid posts on your blog. The search engines are currently punishing any blogs who do these posts and you are simply trading off short term gain against long term success. Also, not only are you hurting your own blog, you are hurting the entire Orble network because as your blog is penalised, all the links you have to other blogs in the network will be worth less.

It takes time and effort to create a profitable blog. There are no short cuts.

I wince every time I see a paid post on a good blog because I know what damage is being done.

Thanks,
Jon.
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Some domains which need a good blogging

November 20th 2007 00:09

The new inactive blog list is up.

There are also a few domains which have nothing on them and need a good blog to keep them warm at night:

techstripe.com
cirruscloud.com
hornbytrain.com
geboten.com
twonkie.com
muddie.com
baseballer.com
fobz.com
ageek.com
iswhy.com
andmy.com
iandme.com
inzoo.com
bcame.com
wiraz.com
qwerk.com
theoutbox.net
musicdime.com
musicstripe.com
musicpeach.com
musicfour.com
musicten.com
fashionpeach.com
fashionstripe.com
fashionrat.com
moviemage.com
moviestripe.com
moviedime.com
filmfamous.com
filmdash.com
filmmage.com
filmdime.com
filmbanana.com
dimemovie.com
cravefashion.com
debateboxing.com
debatebattle.com
goalscore.com
shinyhealth.com
beautydime.com
beautystripe.com

Let me know if you take a fancy to any of them.

Jon.
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Back Up

November 19th 2007 22:39
OK, we are back up. It took more like 40 minutes but that should be the last of the downtime for a while. Thanks for your patience everyone.

The good news is that the new database server seems to be running very well with the load on the database software hardly registering. Yay for dual processors


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Orble going down for 20 minutes

November 19th 2007 21:48
We are going to have to go down for about 20 minutes in order to finish the upgrade to the new database server. Thanks for your patience everyone! Once this is finished we should be back to normal.

Please off on making any new posts until I give the all clear


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Server Problems

November 19th 2007 20:43
We had a few server problems overnight. No posts or comments were lost, they just did not display around 50% of the time as one of the database servers was accidentally put out of sync by some changes that the server company was making.

Everything is working again now, however we still have one more change to make which could result in some new posts not displaying temporarily but hopefully for no longer than 10 minutes or so


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Debate Battle!

November 16th 2007 03:51
After some discussion about this idea a while ago I've set up a new blog Debate Battle.

The idea is to hold debates on volunteer host blogs which will help promote that blog and provide us with some entertainment


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Orble Christmas Party

November 15th 2007 22:10
Well it's that time of the year again and the second Orble Xmas party will be held on the Sunday the 18th of November from 3pm at the Dolphin Hotel.

412 Crown Street


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Traffic Statistics

November 6th 2007 01:23
Today's traffic stats were sent out twice to most bloggers today.

The first version did not include stats from one of the servers so the second version is the correct one


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Daily Orble emails

November 6th 2007 01:06
I've just launched the DailyOrble email which will contain a list of the 10 most popular posts on Orble.

We already have 30 subscribers in just over 12 hours since I put up the subscription form so it's looking good. Hopefully it will boost traffic to the most popular Orble posts


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