We apologize for the inconvenience. Most of the site's problems were not something we could tell you ahead of time. The good news is that most of the problems are now taken care of. We have couple of minor issues to tackle with but we don't expect any more interruption of service. SOLUTION: If the parent site "somaliaonline.com" is down in the near future, please use the temporary forum we created for you. It has all the posts and we plan to regularly update that forum with all the current posts just as a backup. BOOKMARK THE ADDRESS NOW BECAUSE IF SOMALIAONLINE.COM IS DOWN YOU MIGHT NOT REMEMBER THE CORRECT ADDRESS TO THE TEMPORARY SITE. http://somaliaonlinecom.siteprotect.net/ubb/ultimatebb.php

We have been having problems with our hosting company about the website's high traffic and we had no choice but to reduce the traffic untill we complete our move to new servers. We have couple of issue to take care of, as of today and hopefully the website will be fully functional in the near future.

Asalamu Alaykum Thanks Nomads. Macruuf, not only are we listed as a related source site now, we were actually on the list of "BBCi Recommended" on their popular search engine for a while but we lost our status after the website went down for a month due to our server limitation at the time. Their crawling software caught us and that wasn't pleasant. That "downtime" was a set back for us as it costed us our title. We were the first Somali website ever to be recommended by the BBC as having a Somali-related quality content. Don't worry nomads, we are building our "credit" back as the most decent, reliable Somali content on the internet. Soon inshallah SOL will be on the "BBCi Recommended" list. The BBC's "internet army" is still watching our performance and it will just take time to get their trust back. It is amazing what a good management can do to a small website that doesn't even offer anything but a platform for good discussions. Salaama

Asalamu Alaykum how does it affect you? why do you care? As many of you may have noticed, yesterday our server space got full and our website was down for couple of hours. We had to add more space to our servers and I am sure that situation wasn't convenient for many of you who frequent this forum by the minute. This site has approximately 100,000 posts and that is not an easy burden on any server. As a result, we deleted many topics posted by some individuals who were creating trashy topics (like Cawo stated above), full of insults and personal attacks. We are doing more cleaning and we banned many individuals, Inshallah some more troublemakers will be banned in the next couple of days. Those who sponsored some of these new troublemakers will aslo be given a first warning by Admin via pm. We respectfully ask the nomads not to waste our space with insults and personal attacks. That is the easiest way you can help us conserve some valuable space. NOTE: We have set up a donation box for those nomads who can help. It is just the most practical way of asking you to keep this forum running smoothly. It is one way of giving back something. Thank You nomads.

Mad Mullah, we deleted some of your posts and this is your last warning. Next time we catch you breaking our civility rule, we will ban you from this site and all your posts will be mass deleted.

What is up with the insults and the name callings? QacQaac please respect the rules of the website.

Originally posted by Nasir: Its very difficult to see bright minds out of you so called Somalians. Originally posted by Nasir: the sool region as you know we have many traitors and money hungry there that will do anything for a penny as history has it. This is the 20th time we received complaints from nomads about your nonsense garbage on this website. It is time you leave this website and head somewhere else. It is very clear you can't discuss issues like other Somalilanders without insults or personal attacks on others. You really have pushed the limits of our tolerance. For those of you who are ONLY here to turn this website into a hate-filled piece of fadhi-kudirir with no civility, you will be leaving this family soon. Please respect each other and stop the direct personal attacks on other nomads. Discuss or debate issues with civility. Attack the message, not the poster. Don't get into tribal bickering. That is a piece of advice for all the nomads here.

DECATUR-BALLER is banned from Somalia Online.

Jaamac_Bootaan, you are now banned from Somalia Online Wishing you all the best.

Jamac Bootaan, please stop the personal attacks on our webiste. This is you last warning. The next time we see you using namecalling and personal attacks, we would have no choice but to ban you from Somalia Online. You write pages of arguements and then ruin everything with one word of an insult. You need to calm down and state you case in a civilized manner. No need to get personal with the nomads who don't agree with your line of reasoning. Admin Somalia Online

Cheeta, please don't re-edit your post after we edit out the qabiil names. As you might have read on the rules section before you registered, nomads are not allowed to reference any qabiil names on our website. Absolutely no mention of Somali tribal names here ... please.

Guraad, please edit the qabiil names from your post before you submit. This is not acceptable on our site. This is a warning. Admin Somalia Online

Casey, this is your final warning. Please don't use profanity and personal insults on our website. Admin.

Hashim and Lixle are both banned from Somalia Online. We ask nomads to stop using qabiil insults here.

HornAfrique, we agree 100% that some members are ignoring our policy with new tactics. The main problem is not what members write here. Most of the nomads are respectful and don't get into qabiil bickerings. The new problem we face is the growing qabiil-bashing, hateful articles some nomads cut and paste from other websites. Like Shujui said, nomads need to do their part on keeping a leash on themselves. We will try to delete any article with qabiil names because we just don't have the time lexury to go through and edit every single one of them. We might as well bring back our old "delete" policy. Nomads, please edit the qabiil names from your piece before you post it or else it will be gone. No one will edit it for you. As far as insults and personal attacks, that will not be tolerated and anyone who is a victim of that should let us know.

Baashi and Nur, we are always open for ideas. One of the adminstrators acually brought this up two days ago. We will provide the platform for any such useful content. Please private "admin" so that we can discuss this in detail.

Please stop the personal attacks, insults and the qabyaalad garbage on our website. If the rules of the website are not respected we will ban individuals from this website. This is a serious warning for Sammurai, HornAfrique and Liqaye. You are all mature grown men and we will not tolerate any more attacks and qabyaalad filth.

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Angel Dust, calling my reply "pathetic" and using abusive language will not get you anywhere on this site. Please respect us and others on this day of Ramadan. This is your second warning.

Ayoub, next time you have a quesion, please ask by sending a private message to Admin. Don't double violate our rules as if you are above the rest of the nomads. The website has rules, and if you ever have questions, feel free to ask us via pm, and we would gladly answer your questions. As to your question on why the qabiil name was edited, we have recieved complaint from nomads asking us to edit your intentional qabiil comment. We will take similar steps in the event that you repeat the same remark again. On the other hand, the name ********ia (a region in Ethiopa) was never a concern for us because our website have never experienced any qabiil fights as a result of somebody mentioning that region. But we will now take the step of censoring that word since you brought it up.

Faraax, haven't you read the rules of the website. Saaxiib respect others. I don't really care where you came from or what part of the horn you carry the flag for. This website has rules and if you break the rules, you will not scape from the staff even if it takes us time to see you post. This is the second time I am seeing your filthy language on our website. I will be keeping an eye on you. macasalaama.

ManofWisdom, brother, next time you post topics, please post on the right forum. This forum has categories and they are very easy to follow. No need to create extra work for the moderators. Thank You

Ladeef, next time you write language like that on our forum, you will be banned from Somalia Online and all your posts deleted. This is your last warning. Please respect our rule and respect yourself.

I am sorry to say this but we have no choice but to ban SHAKA_ZULU Twisted Ayeeyo CLOWN MINDSATAE DA_BEAST kiLLaflows because they are the same person. We noticed that these individuals have been causing some trouble for us defending each other and always starting "BRING BACK HEBEL" topics and similar. These characters are the same individual. Thanks to the four nomads who privated us to look into the identitiy of these individuals. Nomads, this is your website. You have every right to encourage civil debate based on walaanimo and respect. REMEBER: it is just a click away for Admin to find out your identity and all the other usernames who carry your identity. No matter how hard you try to act like you and HEBLO are different you will not get away with it. It is just a matter of us finding the time to investigate you. Our sytem gives us a unique identity for every user here. It looks something similar to this Internet Company: Telkom SA Ltd. OrgID: SAIX Address: Soekor Building Address: 151 Frans Conradie Ave City: Parow StateProv: Western Cape PostalCode: 7500 Country: South Africa Computer Owner: ****EDITED****** Home Address: ****EDITED**** CITY: Parow Country: South Africa IP Number: 196.15.255.255 CIDR: 196.15.128.0/17 NetName: SAIX-2-CIDR NetHandle: NET-196-15-128-0-1 Parent: NET-196-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: IGUBU.SAIX.NET NameServer: SANGOMA.SAIX.NET Comment: Please contact abuse@saix.net for abuse queries RegDate: 1997-10-13 Updated: 2003-08-27 TechHandle: JDU24-ARIN TechName: Du Preez, Johan TechPhone: 012 6800067 TechEmail: johan@saix.net NOCHandle: TIN2-ARIN NOCName: Telkom IPNet NNOC NOCPhone: +2712 6770224 NOCEmail: nnoc@saix.net AbuseHandle: TIA-ARIN AbuseName: Telkom IPNet Abuse AbusePhone: +2712 6770224 AbuseEmail: abuse@saix.net OrgAbuseHandle: TIA-ARIN OrgAbuseName: Telkom IPNet Abuse OrgAbusePhone: +2712 6770224 OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@saix.net OrgTechHandle: TIN2-ARIN OrgTechName: Telkom IPNet NNOC OrgTechPhone: +2712 6770224 OrgTechEmail: nnoc@saix.net Not only can we ban all the individuals with this identity, we can even post a complaint to the source company and to the law authority there if we want.

We have no choice but to let Mindstate go. This is the third time we cought the nomad abusing our website and other nomads. Good luck