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FAQ: Where's my T-Shirt????????

2009-07-30T10:31:24Z

Limited-edition Tribe T-shirts are sent to annual premium membership subscribers (that is, those who signed up on the $50/year program) and those who purchased them separately between November 2007 and November 2008. To date, we have sent out the first run of 500 t-shirts to those who subscribed or purchased as of April 2008. Another run of T-shirts with a new design is in process and those will be sent out as soon as they arrive to us.

If we do not have your address (as in the case of upgrade orders) or if your package is returned due to an invalid address, we will contact you for the correct information.

If you believe you should be receiving a T-Shirt and have not yet received it, please e-mail premium@tribe.net and we will look up the status of your shipment.

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FAQ: What do you do about copyright violation?

2009-05-23T07:37:30Z

If you believe your copyrighted work has been infringed by a user on Tribe.net and you want us to take down or disable the infringing
materials, you must provide us with all the information requested on the below Notification of Claimed Infringement. The information
requested is intended to substantially conform to the requirements set forth in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C Section
512(c)(3)(A).

We require the following information from you:

1. A physical or electronic signature of the owner, or a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that
is allegedly infringed.

2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site
are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works.

3. The URL of the allegedly infringing work or information sufficient for us to locate the allegedly infringing work.

4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact you, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an electronic
mail address at which you may be contacted.

5. A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the
copyright owner, its agent, or the law and that the use does not fall under a fair use exception.

6. A signed statement that the information in your notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner or are
authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Any notification that fails to comply with the above requirements shall not be considered to either provide Tribe.net with actual
knowledge of infringement or make Tribe.net aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing material or acts are apparent.

On receipt of the necessary statements enumerated above we will remove the allegedly infringing material. Please note that your content may remain in various caching search engines (such as Google's) for some time after it is removed from the site. This may be anywhere from hours to weeks depending on the frequency they update their index of the page in question. This is not something Tribe has any control over.

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FAQ: How can I find out the status of the servers or what's going on?

2009-05-11T19:08:15Z

1. Check the company blog: http://blog.tribe.net
Although you cannot join this tribe, you can set up an RSS feed for the tribe on your homepage to see the latest posts.

2. If the site is down, you'll usually see a maintenance page indicating whether the outage is scheduled (with an approximate time when the site will return) or unscheduled, in which case we won't usually know when the site will return (but it will, really it will!)

3.We have set up a twitter account to post updates on outages and services. Follow this account or twitter questions to it and we'll try to reply as soon as possible:
https://twitter.com/TribeHelp

4. You can always email help@tribe.net and we'll answer you directly.

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FAQ: How do I invite people from my address book?

2009-02-27T20:59:50Z

If you skipped this step in the beginning, or would like to do this again, here is the link:

http://www.tribe.net/template/connect,Connect.vm?continue=http://www.tribe.net/home

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FAQ: How do I cancel my Premium Subcription

2009-01-30T01:49:17Z

As PayPal manages the subscription payments directly and we can't get into your PayPal account, you will need to go to PayPal and sign in to unsubscribe.

- login to your account at www.paypal.com

- At the top menu click the blue box called "My Account"

- From the gray sub menu click "History"

- From the box on the left titled "History" click "Advanced Search"

- Enter "tribepay@tribe.net" in the "search for" box (without the quotes" and select "Email" from the "In" popup.

- Set the date range back at least 14 months (for example 9/1/2007).
Click "Submit"

PayPal will return a list of your transactions with Tribe. Click on the "details" link in the line marked "Subscription Creation" to open up the details of the subscription.

- At the bottom of the window you will will see a gray button marked "Cancel Subscription." Select this if you want to cancel your subscription.

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FAQ: I like to type drunk. Who's responsible?

2009-01-30T01:46:57Z

Users are solely responsible for their content and bear all legal liability thereto, as stated in the TOU. This covers all criminal, moral, and personal responsibility. Any issue anyone has with content on Tribe is between the user and poster directly and Tribe has no responsibility nor exercises any editorial control. We provide the service as closely as we can to the principles of common carriage.

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FAQ: I got spammed! What do I do?

2009-01-30T01:36:35Z

Occasionally unsolicited commercial messages are originated by Tribe participants who are misguided about what Tribe is about. Let us know by sending the profile information and we'll sort them out, whether they are just confused or trying to exploit the system in an attempt to maximize their international dating prospects.

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FAQ: Reviving old complaints

2009-01-30T01:34:30Z

1. We unequivocally support the legal standard of the United States that everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

2. Everyone receives the benefit of the doubt. In the absence of clear evidence, the burden of proof is on the accuser.

3. NSA has no records of anything that transpired before 10 November 2008 other than what is in the Tribe database.

4. Any personal tribe messages that have been deleted are gone forever.

5. We will not scour the database of close to a billion messages looking for shreds of evidence of something that was admitted to and apologized for without a court order.

6. We will turn over any information we have in support of a legal investigation into criminal activity that occurs on Tribe.net

7. You are free to use Tribe to express your opinion and we will respect your right to free speech to the limit the law allows

If anyone feels they have been treated unfairly or otherwise has a complaint to make, please send it to abuse@tribe.net

If anyone has had their profile removed by the previous management for something other than obvious spam, please send the details to help@tribe.net

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FAQ: Why did PayPal cancel my subscription?

2009-01-30T01:34:05Z

PayPal has a monopoly on trusted on-line payment systems like Microsoft does on operating systems and similarly there are quirks they don't have a lot of incentive to fix. One is that if your credit card expires or if you change or remove the primary or backup payment mechanism PayPal cancels all of your subscriptions. Until we can fix it, Tribe automatically updates subscription status based on PayPal's reports, including their cancellation reports. This means that if there is a change in status of your PayPal account you could be unsubscribed and lose your star. Please contact us and we will manually reinstate your subscription status for the remainder of your term. You should also notify PayPal in writing to customercare@paypal.com and let them know. Ask them to forward the feedback to their development group. We hope they eventually will address the problem on their side.

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FAQ: I came across a thread which really upset me. What are you going to do?

2009-01-27T23:03:26Z

It is the responsibility of the tribe moderators to manage the speech in that tribe to their standards. We will support all moderators in managing speech within their tribes to any standard they choose to impose with every tool at our disposal. We will not manage a tribe at the request of any user for any reason except to remove prima facia illegal material as obligated by law. Please let us know if moderators appear to be remiss or absent, but your first and best alternative is to create your own tribe and to manage it to your own standards.

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FAQ: A user is stalking/harrasing me, what are you going to do?

2009-01-27T23:02:44Z

Tribe provides and maintains tools to allow users to ignore each other. It is an offended user's responsibility to use these tools as a first line of defense against unwanted attention.

Comments posted in tribes are the tribe moderator's sole responsibility to police. While we will support a moderator in policing their tribe, the sole recourse an offended user has to unwanted attention is with the moderator(s) of the tribe(s) in which the unwanted attention is posted. We will further take action against any user who attempts to break Tribe's security model in any way to bypass these mechanisms for malicious reasons.

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The Purpose for this Tribe

2009-01-27T23:02:09Z

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Where do I go for a rousing verbal debate?

2009-01-26T13:44:24Z

<<This tribe is a community maintained FAQ. This an official tribe, moderated and monitored by Tribe.net employees. We kindly request that you not use this tribe for discussion. If you have general questions about the service, please refer to sanfrancisco.tribe.net/templa...bout.vm

Topics will be posted by employees in the form of a question, and the body of those posts will be the answer. The questions that we post will ones that we get in other forums and from our support emails. If you have additional information, clarifications, or workarounds to add to that particular question, feel free to include it in the thread. But other than that, this tribe should only be used for informational purposes.>>

Seems pretty straight forward, Yet that is not at all what is happening in this tribe, it's been reduced to attacks and I even asked for a referee in moderation..
As some if not all of you know. they (the new investers) are still working on the stability issue of tribe as well as trying to figure out what their stances are, this is an old tribe but it will be one of the first places a new member to this system will come when looking for answers. Please take any further debates to Verbal Thunderdome http://tribes.tribe.net/verbalthunderdome where you can tear each other to ribbons in the discussion and decide who is right or wrong, loudest, whiniest , etc.. you can post your cheap shot pictures and straw man arguments there. Then when your all done you can come back and tell Tribe in a more reasonable form what your suggestions might be. Or you can ignore this post and make tribe be a heavy, and kick us all out of here... I came here because I like to help people, and I love tribe and the way it is set up and functions, and could help new members find the answers and maybe make a new friend or two in the process.

So anyway to answer the question of the topic
Where do I go for a rousing verbal debate?
http://tribes.tribe.net/verbalthunderdome

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When will the killfile for Prometheus Pan be available?

2009-01-26T06:17:55Z

I thought Sunshine was annoying, but this guy is the king. Please, for the love of Jeebus, make it stop!

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FAQ: I provided you with proof of this person's crimes, why aren't you acting?

2009-01-22T22:03:19Z

The sole mechanism for determining guilt in the United States is through judicial process in courts where there are professionals trained to review relevant evidence and which provide expert legal support to both prosecution and defense. We cannot replicate the system of checks and balances that makes the US judicial system generally fair to both accuser and accused. We will rely on it and we will rely on our users to avail themselves of it when needed. Tribe will not presume to punish people for crimes they are not guilty of.

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FAQ: I am a moderator and I need help! Who do I contact?

2009-01-22T17:36:01Z

There are a few tribes for official and unofficial moderator support (listed in order of activity as of the time of this post)
Tribe Moderators: http://moderators.tribe.net/
Big Tribe Moderators: http://tribes.tribe.net/bigtribes

A fundamental principle of Tribe is that moderators get to create tribes for whatever they want and to manage them however they want. Some pick topics that are of interest to a lot of people and manage them in a way that many people appreciate and they can become quite large and take on a life of their own. Others are more narrowly focused. For any given topic of general interest, there are many tribes all approaching the subject in different ways, each with their own character. Any member is free to find the tribe that best suits them; if none do, they can create their own tribe and run it the way it should be run.

In general, if a tribe member doesn't like a tribe or doesn't like the tone, tenor, subject matter, or content of the posts on a tribe, it is best to discuss that on the tribe. If the moderator is not receptive, the member should become moderator of their own tribe that is run right.

Tribe moderators are the disciplinarians of their tribes. Sometimes this can be a tricky task and occasionally, like Tribe as a whole, it is hard to balance openness with excluding difficult people. There are some tools to manage this (making a tribe membership moderated or private instead of open to the public, for example) but the current tools are a compromise. When these tools fail or aren't appropriate, we can help.

Supporting moderators is a top priority and if you're a moderator of a tribe of any size, if you have a question about or problem with your tribe, please contact us at modsupport@tribe.net.

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FAQ: So and so is a troll, why haven't you deleted their profile?

2009-01-22T02:37:34Z

Unsubscribing users is a useless mechanism. Anyone with even a minimal understanding of computer networks can resubscribe indefinitely no matter what tools are at our disposal, no matter how much money we were willing to spend to try to block someone. Tribe cannot survive as a closed, ID-verified community. We are refusing to unsub problematic users not as an endorsement of their behavior but because such policies were an abject failure. It has been unequivocally proven in our experience to date that not unsubscribing users is far more effective in controlling problematic behavior.

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What's really not allowed on Tribe? What do you do about borderline behavior?

2009-01-21T20:48:09Z

Tribe is a discussion forum, nothing more. The crimes committable on Tribe include (but may not be limited to, check your local laws) copyright infringement, ITAR violations, obscenity, defamation, "domestic terrorism," and in some states with broad definitions, "stalking." Of these crimes, none, not a single one is a criminal act until determined by a court of law and in every case the accused is innocent until proven guilty, either beyond a reasonable doubt or to a preponderance of evidence (as appropriate). We manage claims of copyright infringement to the requirements of 17 U.S.C Section 512(c)(3)(A) which mandates extra judicial action on the basis of valid complaint. Other than servicing DMCA obligations, we will not act on a criminal complaint save to refer the complainant to the police or an attorney of their choosing and to preserve as we can any relevant evidence on our system. We will absolutely comply to the limits of our abilities with any final ruling of any US court. In all the crimes committable on Tribe, it is far better in the pursuit of justice that Tribe maintain the user records and that those records remain consistent, not fragmented across a series of unsubscribed alts. Such records will be maintained and provided under subpoena to appropriate authorities.

Our policies are for the protection of all members of Tribe's community. Accusations are commonplace on Tribe, some valid, many fabricated, some carefully staged. In every single case we have looked into we have found plenty of evidence of bad behavior on both sides. A uniform rule of intolerance for ill-considered speech would depopulate Tribe.

There are people on Tribe who are "trolls" and trouble makers and generally irritating. We are willing to work to smooth out these issues on Tribe; we find that it is best to keep people subscribed as long as possible because it is absolutely impossible to block an individual's access to Tribe short of making Tribe a closed system without any privacy, and that is not the purpose of Tribe. Users that need such a system need a different system than Tribe. Users of Tribe must accept the limitations on mitigating the annoyance of such users on an open system that respects privacy and free speech such as Tribe.

There are people on Tribe who have and who will commit crimes. The vast majority of these will have nothing at all to do with Tribe. Some will have no known link with Tribe but will statistically be committed against other Tribe members. Some will have some relation to Tribe. There is a narrow class of crimes that can be committed "on" Tribe. The only effective action Tribe can contribute to mitigating the consequences of these crimes is to remind people that if they have any reason to fear the behavior of another person they should go immediately to the police or contact an authority and to let us know so we can ensure that evidence is preserved. If a crime has been committed, Tribe will provide the investigation with all the evidence we can. If a person's behavior is deemed sufficient to consider a restraining order, information from Tribe may support that case and we will provide whatever relevant information we have. If a restraining order is granted Tribe will use whatever tools it has to support compliance with that restraining order.

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Moderation Team Suggestions

2009-01-18T04:46:20Z

The prometheuspan plan for solving the current troll/alpha dog dominion violence headtrip that is the cancer that keeps civilization stupid.

1. These principles must be utterly pragmatic to employ as rules in a forum, and yet be long term social engineering principles which look at the long term
and gently shape it.
2. These principles must apply in each case the core principle of the balance between severity and mercy. Without enough of both yin or yang,
the universe or any system which is a microfractal impression of the core scalar fractal holomorph will fall out of balance.
A. This includes al kinds of systems, for instance weather which needs a day and night cycle, or social systems which require a certain amount of rules
to enforce civility yet not enough rules to take away anybodies liberties. A large amount of rhetoric of the far right is based on a panic driven
duality schema where they say if things go off in the direction of more rules or to many rules civilization will crumble. the interesting thing is that the
balance point they are pointing at is real. But the current balance is skewed so far off balance to the right that the roof has now become a leg which lands over in
insane retardsville.
3. The core problem of ignorance as it plays out in pack psychology; people fighting over things they know nothing about.
B. Thus the core cure of education. Not unsubbing, public humiliation, or other forms of negative re-enforcement. You must employ pavlovs
core gift to humanity in order to fix this problem.
C. that core gift is this; No amount of merely negative re-enforcement ever makes any situation better, it just makes the criminals better or slyer
or more twisted. You can't beat a dog into submission for long, eventually if you don't also love it its going to decide to finish the nightmare alpha
monster as best as it can.
D. Thus the true core of severity is its balance counterpoint in this and most instances; the system is only as good as the judgements made in bringing
things up... you could call it the parental love side of the force.
On the other hand on te severity or discipline side of the force you have what we might have to call parental discipline. The real truth about applying parental
discipline with a child or an adult human whos behaving as one is that the truth is you can only claim moral authority with a person by demonstrating
to them that you are doing your best to treat them and their situation fairly.

E. Thus 'Discipline" in any successful adventure, even with a child is a love driven account system with very occasional negative energy withdrawals of large
sums. IE, the parent gives to the child positive energy, and more positive energy; the child behaves badly, the adult gives a very short burst of negative
energy which drains the emotional bonding account between parent and child. A parent must see that account in the childs mind and make sense of it
and love a child in a manner that brings them up and opens doors for them to grow into places instead of boxing them in to keep them safe from themselves.

F.The discipline side of a public forum is then the civility created by a successful moderation team who firstly acts to educate and empower
its user base, as well as lead some discussion forums, but who then incidentally deals with the same crowd or mob to settle or resolve disputes
as opportunities for educational demonstrative process.

4. Every person carries with them a shadow or subconscious elements of self which are for most people entirely subliminal.
In public forums common parlance, we can call that aspect of self the inner troll. Everyone has an inner troll, and
the curious thing about having an inner troll is its another part of you you have to take care of.
A. Theres nothing wrong with sparring where both participants have agreed thats what they want to do.
B. It is however assault to soft spar somebody who has not agreed to the new social conditions of soft sparring.
C. Similarly, verbal or written communication can be used for psychological warfare. And thats an entire trip stretch.
Its a place a lot of people get trapped inside of and they never learn to put down their pitchforks.
D. Thanks to those people human civilization is incidentally still a big phat verbal abuse pitchfork society.
Which is barbaric, primitive, stupid, self defeating, self dating, and ultimately which brings evolution to a grinding halt
around the situation of breeding people stupid so that they will vote republican.
And then make good propaganda war foot soldiers in their orwellian society... all the while pretending that any attempt to improve things is some
form of socialist fascism.
E. Given how pack psychology, the dominant social and political and religious paradigms, and egotism as well as what happens given that
reality is based on fractal scalar mirroring, thus;
F. the relationship any person has with society as a whole is some vague mirror of the relationship they have with themselves and vice versa;
G. the relationship any person has with themselves is the relationship most people project at others socially.
H. A person who does this is trapped in the matrix, and curiously you can demonstrate their trappedness very easily using formal conversational logic if
you know what you are doing.

5. Conversational logic is the true golden science which fixes this if we pay attention. The science has ruled on this, but society hasn't caught up.
a. Ad hominems. An ad hominem is a personal attack. In truth there are different version of what an ad hominem is depending on how formal the conversation is.
In some debate situations, an ad hominem is defined as ANY USE OF ANY REFERENCE AT ALL TO THE COMMUNICATEE IN THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE>...
You are allowed to greet and you are allowed to say goodbye, but in the strictest sense, the moment a person starts talking about the other person rather
than the persons stated ideas they have drifted from focus on what is relevant.
In more common parlance, or in legal language, for instance, an ad hominem is committed any time a person specifically attacks another person.
In either case, an ad hominem is wrong because it makes the talker the subject and thus changes the subject.
b. straw man arguments. When somebody misrepresents what you said and distorts it, or creates an entirely new argument and claims that its yours,
and then knocks that down instead of your argument, thats a straw man argument.
C. Double bind. The best example i am in often is the jerk who insults me ten times for being an idiot according to them and then holds it against me
later for "bragging" that my IQ is 180. Well, my IQ is 180, and they are the ones who brought up the subject of my intelligence.
Or the people whos argument is that you spammed them. Right so your argument is
"i can't handle this its too big and i don't have enough attention span to look
at it so you are bad for even bringing it up" kinds of trippers. Your then damned if you do bother to present the information they obviously don't have
and damned if you don't by such logic.
d. There are these things in language called propositiions, syllogisms, and arguments. Learn what they are and how they stack into each other.
e. Then there is the definition, in conversational logic, of validity, cogency, and TRUTH VALUE.
f. While the current trend is of course anarchy and anarchism with trolls laying claim to waste any ideas to do anything smarter, the first site on the net
which actually employs formal logic to drive both moderation and administration (leading conversations and tossing TROLLS off by confiscating their accounts.)
will evolve rapidly into a viral phenomenon. This will make such a site extremely popular once it takes off, and will then spawn a new set of
competition variables as other places try to implement and create similar social situations.
g. The main reason for this is that formal logic organizes the grand conversation into something auto self searched. With one good moderator leading a conversation
with their head also in a textbook, that moderator can lead a conversation which is incredibly smart, informative, interesting, and orders of magnitude better
than what wikipedia can now do because it too is based still on pack psychology.
h. The second reason for this is that formal logic directly weeds out social parasites so effectively and so quickly that the social energies now being employed to
keep the population ignorant would be blown off and the natural evolutionary sequence which has been being held back by an enormous artificial earth dam
can burst through all that and claim everything waiting for us at the next intellectual evolutionary level.
i. Conversational logic is thus the "Severity" side of our model. It turns you into a coldly rational and calculating individual with no biases
and a clear and lucid understanding of the difference between what you really do know and what you probably don't.

6. Non Violent communication or NVC is a relationship and communications meta model which converts positive energy relating into a very simple ritualized form
of conversation.

7. Maslow and Pavlov fill out the rest of the side of mercy.

8. My suggestion to tribe then is this;

1. Run a user based back ground check on the hard core users who are interested in it,
and then pick 3 user liasons per each paid staff member.
2. These volunteers will act as secretaries and as a sort of interface with tribers.
3. The new moderators will not have unsub powers for tribe as a whole but should have limited global moderation powers
to do things like move posts. (deletion is always problematic as then its missing. Organizing it is better. Similarly, don't unsub an account,
get into it as an admin and change the password. Think how much easier that would now make the task of giving me back my old account.
(prometheuspan@hotmail.com. I was unsubbed for reporting a stalker.I wasn't asking for her removal i was asking for a moderator to talk some sense
into her.And then later warning people in tribes about her once i saw her in action abusing others. She got like a dozen people unsubbed before the staff
unsubbed her apparently realizing who was the real culprit.)
4. The new moderators will HOST tribe. that means that they will chat with tribers in a few limited tribes, lead conversations in those tribes,
and occasionally come into situations as a third element in a dispute larger than a single tribe.
5. Preferably if its done right using 100 instances of that(dealing with inter/multi tribe disputes.)
to teach the mob how not to do it and then not having to deal with it much after that.
6. Have your moderation team open not just the five or ten tribe tribes that now exist but a whole new batch of main tribe tribes
which tribe can now feature, where the moderators lead conversations smart and ultra civil as demonstrations of how it can be done that way.
The list of topics is as easy as obamas platform planks plus 50 sciences. With a tribe on astronomy thats got good moderation, you should have
a virtual open ended textbook on astronomy that beats google searches for depth, quality and ease of access as well as information density.

IE; show tribers how smart management of a tribe can turn a tribe into something truly useful, educational, ultra civil, and etc.
7. Don't require all tribes to be like that.
8. Each tribe has its own sort of charter for social protocols and thats as it should be. Global moderators should take this into account.
A troll who starts a troll tribe to play innocently with their inner and other peoples trolls can be left alone to bicker and ad hominem and straw man
away to his hearts content; thats that tribes version of social order and it has its own logic and rules which should be respected.

9. By one definition then a TROLL is somebody who tries to change the social order always back to pack psychology and bully tactics; a verbal bully.
a. all bullies by definition are actually weak minded vampires.
b. so if you help their minds get stronger, they can fix, or...
c. If you help them put together a psychology kit thats self sufficient, they can quit being vampires.
d. The real key to problem solving process with TROLLS is to see them as victims of bad ideas.
good moderation is not about punishing somebody, its about educating them and empowering them to have a better tactic.
Its not about caging people, but about liberating them.
10. The troll complaint against rules is that such interfere with personal liberty. What is never discussed and never pointed out is that a
sociey run by pack psychology and bullies isn't a liberated society either. A bullies idea is that its his personal liberty to boss people around,
harass them, stalk them, belittle, slander, attack, etc. That idea is a wrong idea, ethically, socially, and by now, perhaps most important evolutionarilly.
The real truth abut cages and liberty in social systems is that we now exist in a civilization of wage slavery as a cage and troll propaganda warfare for
our intellectual public discourse. Its pathetic.Its a cage, and the way out of it is to realize that good rules don't hinder personal liberty, they are
the ballwarks and the foundations upon which a society gains enough energy for us to have personal liberties.You can't be liberated or free in a society which sees
you as a labor commodity or which treats you like meat. You can't be liberated or free in a tribe where TROLLZ shoot down all of the better thinking by attacking the
geeks so that they can be the alphas.
Good social rules are the wings a social system uses to fly. Without them, any social system is going to be grounded in the banal, and confined to the lowest common
denominators in terms of IQ and attention span.
So the real truth is that the trolls are the ones selling mental cages and i am the one whos offering true liberty.
11. To implement a successful moderation system requires close attention to the above principle.
Moderation is not about controlling people, its about giving them the wings to let them fly. The trolls are projecting their trip about their own mental cages,
which has nothing to do with reality as it is. THEIR rules are the mental cage.
True liberty is when a group of 30 people fall into phase and become a super genius think tank off exploring some interesting aspect of reality.
True liberty is when your ten hobby groups totally rock and your life is awesome because you have such great support for your hobby group.
12. So, you have your moderation team running these tribes aimed for peak performance in demonstration of what a tribe can do; the very top
of what can be done with a tribe. And those demonstrations then help people to learn and to see what to do and how to work making their own tribes better.
And if you are smart, eventually what happens is the moderation styles somewhat catch on, and then tribe becomes a place with lots of "troll" hang outs
but without an over-all TROLL dominance of the site.

13. This is of course just a bullet point brief, I can detail it but i think it might be better to work democratically towards detailing better than i would alone.
The upshod on two sides is that you need a moderation team. You can do that with or without me personally, but it seems like a waste to waste such a well
educated and lucid volunteer. Aside from myself, the persons i know of on tribe i might nominate as others include lokifreign, wild apache, djarum, and, until recently,
shatter, tho i may have been too kind in my estimation of him. Dimi comes to mind, patasapien, tho i doubt either of them would be interested.

The people you want are the ones who previously walked the line. The people who managed to live as both sides of their nature in a prodictive over all manner.
People who can hang with the trolls or with the TROLLs. And yet who can come to a conversation and be present and lucid and adult while still making their case
and making an argument.

The problem is if you get somebody whos like djarum used to be; idealist and shell shocked and demanding that the world be sterile to suit them.
Thats too far the other direction.

I'll continue to write this little missive and keep you updated for versions, since its becoming so relevant.
:)

In the meantime, again, I ask, how can tribe solve these problems sanely rather than trying to absolve itself of culpability
and sweep things always under the carpet?

I am offering solutions not merely accusations, i am offering evolution not as shatter accuses "spamming."

So, please answer this thread with your own ideas about how to make tribe better, how to do moderation without doing fascism,
and etc.

thanks in advance,
peace
pan

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 24 replies

Inviting people back to tribe

2009-01-17T12:10:45Z

So far I can account for 4 members returning to Tribe who had left the site during a time when the stability of the site made it almost impossible to be here. We all know this site is not yet perfect, but it's clear the people running the site know what they're doing.

Tribe is not down nearly as much as it was during the months leading up to NSAs takeover of the sites operations

Customer Service which was non existent before is now improved considerably

Communication to members regarding site issues has improved

I am pretty sure most long time members have friends from Tribe who left the site during what I call the 'dark days'. I think it would be a great idea if we all started to invite some of these people back.

Bruce

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

Excuse me?

2009-01-16T05:10:23Z

Yes,..... Um.... Maybe... I 'm in the wrong tribe......but....well........Just what is this tribe here for again.?......because I seem to be lost. .........I....can't seem to find any pertinent topics that aren't just rants and ramblings. .....What's up with that?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

Who is New Systems Associates?

2009-01-14T04:17:30Z

Ok, I'm a gold star member, dammit, which means I deserve to know who are the folks who make up New Systems Associates -- the folks who stepped in to help tribe.net.

I simply would like to know who they are, and thank them!

Any of you folks of NSA here, care to let us know who you all are? Got a website? Anyone able to spill the beans, yest??

And thank for the t-shirt!

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

TRIBE BANDS and mp3/videos

2009-01-12T22:22:03Z

I realize that the cureent economic climate may make this idea untenable,
but one of the reasons why so many bands migrated from Tribe to MySpace
was because MySpace hosted a few mp3s (and now, videos).

I find that Tribe is such an artistic community, but it is very difficult for musicians or
videographers or DJs to use this environement to help publicize their work
because they are continually forced to go to other sites to post listenables/viewables.

Even if it took some personal subscription money to afford the bandwidth on the part of
Tribe members, I'd certainly be willig to pay some money to have that service.

Otherwise, it just becomes untenable for most musicians and performers to maintain
two or three sites (tribe, myspace, youtube, flickr, vimeo, facebook, et. al. ) for sheer
lack of time.

You have a large population of artists here. I honestly think you'd be vastly more popular
(which would then enhance your revenue stream from both subscribers and advertisers)
if you offered such a service.

I've gone so far as to create ghost Yahoogroups, just to handle audio files for the music tribes
that I'm in, but it just becomes too much work to moderate all those sites.

Is it economically tenable to host mp3s and even ,possible, videos?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

I posted a question to Tribe management in my personal tribe and I still haven't gotten an answer. What's wrong with you people?

2009-01-12T09:55:25Z

We attempt to provide our user base with an understanding of the operating principles of Tribe and to generally answer questions as we have information. Such responses can be a delicate balance between providing information that is not misleading by suggesting speculative solutions which may not materialize and protecting business and legal obligations. Such public responses will therefore be diplomatic and may be by necessity oblique. We will attempt, as time allows, to answer any valid, constructive, and generally non-combative questions; to make these policies and the reasoning behind them clear; and to help users understand why we think they are in everyone's best interest.

We generally follow and participate in the discussions in bugs and brainstorms.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

cannot sign in to my profile

2009-01-12T09:20:02Z

everything worked until the long 'donut panic' last week.

now when i try to log in to my "spark*l" account, i am told that my email/password is invalid. when i attempted to change my password (forgot your password? feature), it informs me that my email does not belong to a registered user. funny, but my profile is still there, and it still looks like me, and i never changed my email address.

in order to read my tribes and to post my dilemma here, i've set up a secondary hotmail account and this "spark*l clone" tribe account. i've already sent three emails to help@tribe.net, with no response.

any thoughts on what else i can try?
:)*
spark*l (clone)

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 17 replies

WILL YOU GUYS PLEASE ISSUE A FORMAL STATEMENT TO ALL AT TRIBE ABOUT NEW OWNERSHIP and MANAGEMENT?

2009-01-12T04:05:13Z

WILL YOU GUYS PLEASE ISSUE A FORMAL STATEMENT TO ALL AT TRIBE ABOUT NEW OWNERSHIP and MANAGEMENT?

I love this community but i"m having a hell of a time convincing people that all the sins of the previous owners are not
still being visited upon this community.

It would be great to get some official back up from you guys.

There's been a tremendous downturn in the amount of participation in the inummerable tribes that I either moderate
or participate in so it feels a little like there's an elephant in the room that no one will talk about.

I think people would respond well and positively to an admission of the problems that made this community dwindle in the past two years and to address all the things that you guys are doing to rectify the situation (and I know that you are working hard to do just that from the letter to moderators that we recieved.

I'd love to see you guys prosper and this paradigm prosper and I think it would behoove you guys
to communicate honestly with all members about the current state of tribe and the things you have been working
so hard to implement to make it a better and more vital and responsive online community

thanks for taking the time to read this.

keep up the good work.
Rick Walker
moderator
Live Looping, Sample Resources, SC Goth, FrameDrummers, Audio Plugin Junkies Annonymous, Stomp Box Pedals,
Weird Percussion, Weird Drum Machine, Weird Zithers, Weird Guitars, Purple Hand, et. al.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 7 replies

Why doesn't the search feature work?

2009-01-11T10:35:17Z

What are your plans for creating a user-friendly system for searches?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

I know of three tribes where the moderators are absent

2009-01-10T16:34:02Z

in one, the moderator, sadly, has passed on

in the other two, the moderator has left tribe and can't be contacted.

what can we do to either
1) close down a tribe
or
2) change the moderatorship to someone who cares about the community
that is present for the discussions at that tribe and willing to step up to the
moderatorship?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

Why can't we delete old reviews?

2008-12-22T08:08:13Z

http://providence.tribe.net/recommendation/How-do-you-delete-these-reviews/providence-ri/c69b8086-44a6-4fd0-87f4-b37dbde67442?nextpage=http%3A%2F%2Fprovidence.tribe.net%2Flocal&sortType=SORT_TYPE_INTEGER&sortField=rating

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 8 replies

where do you file a complaint against someone?

2008-12-19T12:34:18Z

i've contacted the help email before and never got a response. i have a situation now that i need to address.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 4 replies

For the powers that be at tribe (if any)

2008-11-26T10:56:35Z

If you are going to go belly up and pull the plug on this web site, could you please give us some notice (maybe a week, at least) so we can get alternate contacts from the people we've met and the connections we've made? Please?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 9 replies

deleting old "Sent Invitations"

2008-10-18T07:51:55Z

How is this possible? NOT friend invites,,but rather OLD "Sent Invitations" to join Tribe,,, two different things..

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

DOUBLE POST.. apologies. Questions about backing up my blog.

2008-09-12T18:16:49Z

I back up my blog manually.. It is a tedious process and I get lazy about doing it sometimes. Is there a way to back up my blog ala mass??? What with all the down time here I am not feeling very secure about my information not getting lost. I know I can't really expect tribe to be responsible for that. You take your chances on these freebie sites.. but still an easy way to back up my info myself would be real nice

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

Public Chatrooms in tribechat....

2008-08-28T08:32:26Z

I see the "Groupchat" pop-up in tribechat. Is it not functional yet? Or maybe it only seems that way because no one is ever on it?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 4 replies

"My friends" question

2008-08-15T00:39:11Z

I've noticed that the order of "My friends" thumbnails changes frequently. Anyone know what triggers that?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

Simple question...

2008-08-01T11:42:41Z

Pardon me if this is redundant...but is there a way to change the lineup/order and sequence of photos in my profile?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

How do I change premium payment method?

2008-07-30T16:53:50Z

How do I change how I pay for premium membership?

Jeremiah

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

I just wanted to say...

2008-07-25T05:58:51Z

Tribe has been working REALLY well the past few days, ever since it was down for nearly 24 hrs for maintenance.

Prior to that, I couldn't get hardly a page to load at all. I could barely access anything. Now it seems to be working just like it's supposed to.

I don't have a question--so perhaps this is not such a great or legitimate post--

but I felt it important to say, THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!!
I really mean it!!

There are a number of us who LOVE Tribe and who were really disappointed, sad (and a little anxious!) when friends & acquaintances were making noise about bailing out due to poor accessibility. Cause you know what? I don't *want* another site! I want Tribe! I LOVE Tribe!

Thank you for making the anchor of our community work smoothly.

much love,
veganskater :)

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

Am I a "Premium Member" ... no. Then why am I being charged??

2008-07-16T03:48:06Z

Tell me something.

Do you see an "orange star" next to my name here on Tribe?

Am I a "Premium Member" ?? Cause, last i knew, I was NOT. I used to be, till my entire profile was deleted on "accident" a few months ago. That was it for me. And, let's face it, times are tough. Too tough for such luxuries as premium memberships. Well, for me at least. I'm broke, and I won't lie.

Well apparently, Tribe has been charging me, for an account, every month, $5 a month, all this time.

I've sent out a bunch of emails... and am still waiting for replies. I sincerely hope they fix this mess, and refund my money, I can't afford this nonsense. I really can't.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

How to report spam?

2008-07-15T07:32:07Z

I've seen a forwarding address somewhere, but I can't remember where I saw it.

It would be nice if spam-reporting instructions appeared on our "other mail" page, which is where I receive all of my spam.

thanks in advance...

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

How do you report a "Nigerian Money Scam"?

2008-07-15T01:06:32Z

I am being bombarded with requests to send money to one who goes by the name of "joy" (oh yeah).........

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

Why do I keep getting booted off?

2008-07-11T04:39:16Z

I was just composing a reply to a post. Fortunately, I remembered to copy what i wrote before I clicked on preview, and sure as shit, I had been booted off again. The page that says 'join to post' came up. WTF? I was just on! I spent about 5, maybe 10 minutes working on a reply and didn't think that warranted booting me off. Sometimes, I'll be clicking away on different tribes, and all of a sudden, i'll get that gdfn page again. What gives? (I'm not a paying member.)

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

Crop not working?

2008-07-08T06:42:59Z

I notice that my new icon is squashed & some of my friends' are too. Is there a problem?

best wishes

Barry

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

Blog permalinks

2008-05-10T08:28:07Z

Hi folks! Can someone tell me why my links out to other sites no longer work in my blog? It used to accept the <a href> code but now, when I "submit," it changes the code, rendering it incomplete/useless. So I tried using the whole URL instead of html code and it still won't form a working link. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

Listings and Events

2008-04-26T16:07:36Z

I posted a listing for an event and it doesn't show up under my listings. I'd like to track the invites but can't find it anyhere.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

Chat Formatting..

2008-03-27T09:08:37Z

How the hell do you do Italics in Chat ?

Bold is an asterix either side of the word or sentence... *bold*
Underline is as underscore either side of the word or sentence _underline_

But I cant seem to work out Italics ?!

Anyone know ?

Oh - and my fav smiley is B-)

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

Removing a Tribe

2008-03-24T06:26:11Z

Ok, how do you remove a tribe that is not popular, has no members, and is just taking up space?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 6 replies

Social Network consolidation?

2008-03-12T16:12:58Z

Have read that this trend is producing one or two mega-sites where one can go and see all the stuff about you in various social networks. Does Tribe plan to lead or follow?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 10 replies

how do we change our email address???

2008-03-04T13:05:29Z

huh?

http://faq.tribe.net/thread/2ef1fe7d-d401-4568-b5f7-42b5794d6981

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

changing my email address

2008-03-01T18:10:35Z

won't work
did everything prompts told me to do
won't work
still i'm signing in under old email address
WHICH IS NOW CLOSED
WHICH MEANS I DON'T GET MY NOTIFICATIONS
WHICH MEANS I AM AN UNHAPPY TRIBEGURL

i sent copies of this situation to help, feedback, adm, and replied when i received the bogus confirmation that it was done

IS SOMEBODY OUT THERE TO HELP ME???

thanx!
aurelia

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

OMG!!! WTF!! My whole area is GONE!!!!!!!!!!

2008-02-18T01:36:18Z

Ok. I am really, really, really upset right now.

I went to try and make changes to my subscription here (I was a premium subscriber) ... and, now my ENTIRE ACCOUNT IS GONE!!! No messages, no warnings, just POOF.... GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How the HELL does something that major, just HAPPEN!!!!!!

I've been here years, and I just lost my whole network of friends, all my messages, all my tribes, and all my beautiful testimonials. It's all gone. All my pictures, blog entries... everything.

I am HEART BROKEN.

Why Tribe isn't answering my "PLEASE HELP!!" emails, I do not know.

I started a new account, but I want my old one back!!!!!!

:( :(

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

Tribe Chat Hints...

2008-02-08T10:56:39Z

While using Tribe Chat today I discovered that *word* will bold the words between the " * "

What other tricks do folk know when using Tribe Chat - how do you get italics for instance ?

I also started this thread here. http://tips.tribe.net/thread/b3c9798b-5b04-4c30-86f6-ca9c955a0d81

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

HELP! Someone hacked and erased my profile!

2008-02-07T22:01:00Z

I heard there might be a way to recover it, can anyone help me?!

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

Why does my sign on

2008-02-06T14:12:16Z

route through Phoenix when I live out side of Los Angeles?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

Improvements Pending?

2008-02-01T23:02:01Z

Hi all.

I'm a UK user of tribe, and to my dismay, I can only set 'London', as my local city. The thing is, London is in fact the furthest city away from me, and so it's anything but local. The closest cities to me are Manchester or Liverpool.

I also don't appear to be able to alter my time setting, and if this is the case, this isn't too good for US users either who are not in the same timezone as Tribe administration (or is it only non US users that can't do this?).

I am just wondering, in that we are being expected to subscribe, are there any improvements in the pipeline? I mean, would it really be such a back-breaking task to increase the number of cities available for non US users to choose as their locality, or the adjustment of timezone? I have actually never known a site like this, or forums, on which you cannot change timezones, I thought it was standard.

I like it here very much, but there are many flaws that seem unusual and unnecessary.

I would actually be very keen to subscribe to Tribe, but I won't do so while I get a second rate service, unless of course I get charged half as much.

Tribe isn't fulfilling it's potential. Are any improvements planned?

Thanks.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 4 replies

What is the idle-out time these days?

2008-02-01T22:57:20Z

I read tribe at work (bad, I know), and I like the fact that I don't have to worry about logging out when I go home. But the time after which I get logged out, which I vaguely remember as being 1 hour, seems to be a lot less these days.

Is there an exact number?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

Why don't my modules on my profile work?

2008-02-01T22:56:00Z

They haven't worked in months. I post listings or events and can't post them on my profile. I have this problem more with the listings. Is this option broken?

thanks,
-Liz

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

Editing and Deleting

2008-01-18T01:11:03Z

Is there any way to edit your posts? Is there also, in case of emergencies, any way to delete them?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 4 replies

Unsubscribing.

2008-01-14T18:16:44Z

I have noticed that in some tribes, there will be comments that have blank avatars next to them, and where a username would normally be displayed, it says, 'unsubscribed'.

I was wondering, does this signify that a person who was once a member of that tribe, but has since decided to leave that tribe, is the cause of this, or is it that such people have asked to be removed from Tribe.net all together, and if this is the case, how is this done?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

how to create a specialized tribe URL?

2008-01-10T23:20:45Z

for example, how do I turn

tribes.tribe.net/mytribe

into

mytribe.tribe.net

?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

'Friends' Display not Correct.

2008-01-08T07:39:42Z

Okay, so this is petty, it's a very Virgoan thing to get bothered by, but my profile says I have 24 friends, and this isn't the case. This is rather bugging. They have been culled to 17, logging back out and in again appears to make no difference. When someone else on my contacts list deleted some people that they never talk to, he just needed to log off and in again to see the correct number displayed - how come this isn't happening for me?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

How do I change my time setting?

2008-01-03T20:23:09Z

Hi all.

I'm just wondering how I change my time setting so that it is the same as it is on my desktop. I've looked and looked, and it's incredibly frustrating.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

My bio info doesn't appear on my profile page

2008-01-03T20:18:00Z

... most of the time. On rare occasions, it does show up.

The "about me" always shows, but the "here for" and "interests" are more often than not missing. When I look at other profiles, I always see their "here for" and "interests" on the front page, if they have those filled in.

Anybody have any ideas why this is happening?

Much appreciation.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

Is there a way to feed my tribe blog to somewhere else?

2007-12-14T04:49:28Z

I want to see if I can feed my tribe blog to blogger or livejournal or something. Is that possible? Tribe is my blogs home and I don't want to start somewhere else but if I can feed it to one of the big blog places then a few people who aren't on tribe can see them and also I can archive them way easier.

I know I can feed people's other blogs onto my home page...I just can't remember if it's possible to feed a tribe blog to somewhere else.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

Blog Comments ?

2007-12-12T03:27:46Z

I was temped to start in the Bugs Tribe – but thought I would try here first because it may not be a case of a bug with tribe.net – but a bug with my brain..

I am not getting any notification of comments to my blog (which I hardly use).

Where would I see these ? The Friends Posts Module ? Via PM like the comments I receive on pictures I have posted ?

I have looked over Tribe Help and also searched tribes faq and also in this tribe - but can't seem to find the answer...

It is embarrassing when I don't answer questions or acknowledge kind comments in my blog..

Can anyone help a Bloke out ?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 4 replies

Why can't I post a picture?????

2007-12-08T21:54:11Z

I am now writing blogs DESCRIBING what the picture would look like......come on guys...If we're wasting our money trying to support you let us know so we can preserve friendships made on tribe. I am the moderator of two tribes.....one has become multinational and become a "guild"...HELP!

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

I receive 2 messages when anyone joins my managed tribes

2007-12-08T19:09:32Z

I receive 2 duplicate messages when anyone joins my managed tribes. Why would this happen? It's a little annoying.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

Is tribe going over to that awful pretentious psuedo German Gothic Typeface?

2007-12-08T18:34:15Z

It keeps popping up, and maybe it's just realated to the outage yesterday/today. I can't find the tribe for feedback, but I find that typeface unreadable and therefor annoying, and I hope it's not becoming the standard.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

I heard a rumour.....

2007-11-24T22:41:56Z

I heard a rumour in the form of a blog that Tribe.net is shutting down - in fact some kind of trouble that it will no longer be. If this rumour is true, please give us time to know so we can gather out our info safely.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

Rumor sighting, part 2

2007-11-19T17:14:38Z

Like the gal who posted before me, I also heard a rumor via a friend's blog that Tribe was running into financial difficulties and may possibly close or restructure. I think part of this was from the amount of down time Tribe has had lately, but I've not heard anyone from Tribe address this issue.

If it is true, and a matter of setting up gold or silver accounts ($3-$5 a month or whatever) I think a lot of folks might be interested. After the second blackout a bit ago many of my Tribe friends opened Facebook accounts, but nobody is too happy with them... and don't even ask about MySpace! This community is a pretty good one and it would be great to see it continue.

Regardless, whether these rumors are true or not, it would be great if someone from Tribe would make some kind of general announcement before the rumor mills start REALLY getting loud!

Thanks!

SMSapphire

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

My event listing disappeared, twice!

2007-11-05T02:53:12Z

I posted an event, but hadn't invited anyone to it yet. But I did post it to several tribes.
The event was gone the next day. This happened twice. What's going on??

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

funny pictures

2007-11-02T17:48:50Z

and why, when i post stuff in funny pictures, do i never have it asterisked as something new to look at when i log into my home page?

this same thing happens when others post stuff in that tribe--
i do not get "notice" of it by way of the almighty asterisk

???

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

OpenSocial?

2007-11-02T00:31:50Z

IS tribe going to be part of the new OpenSocial initiative from Google?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

why does it say i am online AND I AM NOT

2007-10-31T00:05:06Z

i looked up something on tribe
this morning
WITHOUT LOGING IN
and it said i was online
WHATSUP WITH THAT?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

How to embed videos?

2007-10-23T15:33:31Z

Hi all!

I am trying to embed a Youtube Video onto my home page, but I don't know how to do it. I have tried to copy-paste the embed link, but it doesn't work... Please help!!

Thank you!

Yamina

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

Permalinks

2007-10-21T09:58:07Z

When I click on the permalink button while looking at a friends blog, what does it do for me? I see nothing on my home page to use that to go back.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 5 replies

strange messages since recent messages

2007-10-18T15:19:54Z

what's going on?
since tribe was down for maintenance yesterday
and now back up
i just made 3 posts (joined a new tribe last night & posted)
and then just posted 2 photos in my album
and i'm getting STRANGE messages
like this:

$helper.truncateString($photo.bean.description, 70)

also, when i check tribe (NOT logging in), it says i'm online
NO FAIR!!!

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 0 replies

new comments since 08/28

2007-10-05T13:46:09Z

I have this written on all of my blog posts since the 28th of August - that bit I understand, each post does have comments on it dated after this date. But who picked this date for me?

When does it click over to a new date? Tomorrow?

How long are comments considered 'new'?

Also in my home page it tells me I have 33 new blog comments, but that is wrong! It's more than that if I count them, what is the point of this counter if it is inaccurate?

I'm just a bit obsessively neat and I hate to see the number hanging around and gradually getting bigger with no apparent logic behind it! Can I reset it myself?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 11 replies

Friends Don't Count

2007-10-03T05:43:43Z

I've heard that views from friends don't count towards your view count. True?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 7 replies

friends blogs

2007-09-24T14:19:11Z

Hello everyone...

for some reason i cannot see any of my friends blog postings today. It just gives a message about connecting with my network to see their blogs. i have tried editing it to see if this changes the stauts, but it doesn't. Is this something tribe is working on today under the umbrella of restoring tribe today?

Thanks ,
Bala

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

Help with Blog Please!!!

2007-09-24T14:14:32Z

Hi everyone...

Maybe someone here can help me. So i posted something on my blog and then i messed up what i posted so (instead of pushing edit) i accidentally deleted the post. Now it wont let me post any new topic.

Does anyone know how to fix this...???

Thanks, I appreciate your time...

Bala

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 6 replies

What can be done about flagging?

2007-09-22T08:05:03Z

As a new moderator of a new tribe, nearly all my photos, some comments are flagged....immediately. I was thinking it was someone been devious....but is it a problem with tribe? No one can flag that fast.......

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

Friends order on your profile and home page

2007-09-07T07:43:26Z

apologies if this has been posted before, I'm too lazy to read past the last few posts.

What is the cort order that determines how your friends are displayed on your profile page. Sometimes it's obvious that all the ones currently there are first, but then there are others who are not there, or their on-line status is showing as not there. Is there a specific order they are shown in?

Also on my profile it is a different order to on my home page, so why is that now?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

What DOES this mean ?

2007-09-02T01:13:42Z

You often see "This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded" yet responses seem to be threaded...

What does the "This is the maximum depth. Additional responses will not be threaded" mean ????

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

How do I unsubscribe?

2007-07-29T02:16:23Z

I just asking because I dont know how. Not that I want to, I just want to know how.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

How do I Ignore someone?

2007-07-25T17:26:27Z

To Ignore someone, go to their profile, click on the "more options" button beneath their main pic., then click the "Ignore" button. When you have successfully enabled the Ignore function, it will read "Un-Ignore". You will no longer receive messages from the member, nor will you see their listings on your home page.

If this is insufficient, and you feel that the other member may have violated our Terms of Use/Code of Conduct, please report it to abuse at tribe dot net, with a link to the member’s profile. Please include a copy of a message or two which exemplify the possible abuse.

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XSPF

2007-07-24T16:04:12Z

My XSPF

According to what I've read here on TribeNet, the SXPF module works perfectly...

yet when I define a functional URL to a playlist, it does not function. To my surprise, once I leave the URL field blank....i.e. I enter no URL at all, a playlist for "HIDEOUT" appears and functions quite properly. There must be reasoning behind this. Perhaps a fear-of-copyright-allogations reasoning.

HIDEOUT is nothing new to me and I appreciate the 470+ title queue ...but I really really would like to have my preferred songs on my personal plurn playlist appear AND FUNCTION.

Who can explain or elaborate ?

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help@tribe.net

2007-07-20T05:54:46Z

Dear smart friends,
I am trying to become moderator at Krishna Foods tribe but am having a hard time figuring it out. I know i have to make a link to the thread recommending me and dial up help@tribe.net. When I click on help@tribe. net link, it gives me this little white message screen. I then punch in my message and press "send" At this point they tell me an error has occurred, and I'm sol, ya know what i mean? I've had troubles with those little message screen before. Perhaps I'm missing something. any suggestions. Everyone's waiting me to do my thing over on Krishna foods, but I don't want to invite new friends until I get this moderator situation taken care of.
Hare Krsna
Jagadananda Pundit Das

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 4 replies

emails-messages

2007-07-16T02:49:02Z

Is there a setting to have my tribe emails go to into my personnal email one at a time?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

How do I change my "handle"?

2007-07-11T05:33:53Z

I'm trying to figure out how to change my handle on my profile so that people can easily find me by my name on the net instead of the silly handle I originally chose.

Namaste,
L

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Why do some messages appear twice?

2007-06-28T17:21:34Z

Why do some of the messages appear in my inbox twice with the same time stamp? eg "Such and such has just joined your tribe."

Ta!

B

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How do I know what visitors see?

2007-06-27T10:24:06Z

I can log out & look at my tribe home page but I don't see much content compared to when I'm logged in.

Do other tribe members see more than unlogged visitors?

Can I make my links module visible to anyone who looks at my page?

Ta
Barry.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies

So what's going on at Tribe.net anyway?

2007-06-26T13:09:13Z

I haven't heard much from anyone official since the Sysco thing. What is Tribe doing these days? What are the plans? The goals? Whatcha workin' on back there? Hows the work from home concept going? What's next for tribe?

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Inviting someone to join a tribe

2007-06-14T00:49:05Z

I know it's possible to do so without making them a friend first, I just don't know how. Can someone please share this tidbit of wisdom with me? Thanks!

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FTP server? outsiders...

2007-06-07T12:28:26Z

Hey, can anyone help with telling me the ftp server that I'm working with?

Also, FTP path, and "blog filename"?

I'm trying to set up a blogspot space only because some interfaces are being taxed with membership in tribe in order to see my sight.

** if there is a way to be sure that people won't have to sign in to see my site, that'd be great.

Any ideas?

Cheers
jimmer

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searching???

2007-06-01T07:04:38Z

Hi, I'm new & trying to do searches for tribes that i might be interested in. I put in the search for "belly dancers" and no matter what I do it comes up none to be found? I know they are out there cause I've joined a few. But what am I doing wrong? And how do you do a search by the tribe name? That comes up short too. HELP!!!

Thanks!

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 7 replies

How can I get a listing of ALL tribes?

2007-05-22T13:01:32Z

How can I get a listing of all tribes?

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 1 reply

No edit button for blog replies and now I can longer post blog entries

2007-05-22T12:59:24Z

Yep -I blogged -then deleted a comment to a reply because I wanted to reword it and now I can no longer use the blog .
It will not allow me access to posting any new entries.

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Adjust Photo needs adjustment

2007-05-19T06:40:47Z

It used to work, and now it doesn't, and hasn't for a while.

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 2 replies

my listing is set to expire before my event happens

2007-04-28T20:20:53Z

I have a question regarding my listing. My listing is a weekend event on June 15-17th but it says my event will expire May 5th, a month before the event... How do I change that so that doesn't happen??

posted in Tribe.net FAQ - 3 replies