The front face experienced some down time today, which was a direct result of some changes/testing we made to our site. We apologize for the inconvenience. Everything should be smooth Insha ALlah.

Today, we approved close to 100 aliens as part of our cafis program for previous troublemakers or new members who had no one to sponsor them. This is some sort of a temporary experiment to see if our membership system can be improved. If this becomes as sucessful as our "MEMBERSHIP LOTTERY", "SILENT BAN" or CLOSED MEMBERSHIP programs have been, we will make this permanent and do this cafis on a yearly basis. To be on top of our quality control program, we are sincerely asking the nomads here to help SOL and informs us any troublemakers or anyone seen violating SOL rules on the open forums/private. Like always, we appreciate your help and all the "silent moderating" you do to help keep this site clean. Thank You.

In the next few days, we will be adding an Af-Soomaali forum on SOL. All the af-Soomaali threads will be moved to that forum and the General section will be organized. This separation will make things easier for everyone. We have been getting complaints lately about the quality of the General section and the way the General section is organized. The majority of the nomads who come here prefer to write in the English language and we have to make changes to accommodate everyone.

Axmed Maxamed is banned from Somalia Online.

Milk, you are banned for flooding the forum with nonsense.

Snow is banned from Somalia Online.

Snow is banned from Somalia Online.

Talking about bad publicity. We have been getting complaints about the constant insults and the personal attacks going on here lately. We are doing a mass clean up of individuals who we think are violating our website rules on purpose. These are the red flags. Multiple usernames Insults/vulgarity Complaints about SOL and its staff posted on the open forums (send pm if you have issues). Undermining Admins/Moderators's ability to do their job. Tribal names. The above is the quick list we are using to narrow down the abusers. We are investigating more individuals who we think are bringing down the quality of our website deliberately. We urge the nomads to respect others and avoid insults and personal attacks. SOL strict rules will always be here. Send us a private message if you see any attacks, tribal name or suspect an individual is using multiple usernames on our forums. As always, we rely on your input and we appreciate your help. That is one way you can help keep this forum clean. Do your part. Thank You.

Sue, I haven't seen any insults against the black race here and if I and moderators have missed any, the right thing is to forward it to the Admins/moderators and it will be deleted. I remember a while ago a young Somali girl posted couple of insults against African Americans using the "N" word and she did it more than one time. Her posts were deleted and she was banned from the site. SOL doesn't discipline nomads for saying they are not black. We just don't tolerate insults.

The avatar link in the "View/Update Profile" area inside your mailbox is now working. You can now select a new avatar image (the small picture under your username) or update your old one. We apologize for the delay. http://www.somaliaonline.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=edit_my_profile

Qacbaro, please respect other nomads and stop the personal attacks. Warning.

couple of nomads brought to our attention that OG_Girl's username is used by couple of other people who are not registered on this site. If this is true, it is clearly a fraudulent way of obtaining membership to our site. It is unacceptable. We have evidence of different logs for the specific username but we are still investigating this matter and if we find what we are looking for, we would have no choice but to suspend that username and ban the individuals who are responsible for the illegal sharing of SOL username. The owner is notified via pm. This is posted for educational/info purpose to combat any such abuse. Thank You!

Please post on the right forum (Women) next time. Your thread will be moved.

UPDATE: Your old private messages are moved to the temporary forum. If the messages contained any important info you need, please visit the temporary site and access your old private messages there.

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.