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.
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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Comment by katyzzz
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Comment by Elisabeth Fraser
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Your "Terms and Conditions" need definition and decisive
statements.
I understand you would prefer a relaxed, temperate approach to your site; however, you have many thousands of subscribers who need to know there is a definition to your Policy, Rules and Procedures. They need to know where you and they stand.
The members of this site spend thousands of hours writing articles, enhancing their blogs, why?
They believe.
They believe in what they are doing.
They do it for themselves, and they do it because they believe in Orble.
It is time for you to believe in them - don't let them down.
Draconian rules just don't work. Use the membership - all of them. Forget the sycophant types, they're in it for themselves, not Orble.com
Let us help you build a site to be proud of. It takes work, endless hours of work. You never know it could be worth it.
I'm new, but I'm old.
Lis.
Comment by Morgan Bell
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how are you defining "stalking"?
the legal definition of real life stalking as it relates to domestic situations?
The offender must intend to cause physical or mental harm, apprehension or fear.
The victim must be aware of being stalked; the offender must intend for the victim to be aware.
That conduct includes following the victim; contacting or giving offensive material to the victim; entering or loitering near the victim's home, workplace or other place frequented by the victim; interfering with the victim’s property; keeping the victim under surveillance;
in which case i presume you mean "stalking" in the form of continued unwanted PMs or Comments, or literally going around the persons house
or do you mean "cyberstalking" like googling further information about writers, locating their other web-sites and pages not referenced on Orble?
i have been lucky enough to have had both of those things happen to me, but i have been very satisfied with how it has been dealt with so far
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I've amended above. I did intend to mean cyber stalking. Real life stalking is something for the police to handle if it happens.
Appreciate any thoughts on the expanded definition.
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