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In recent times, ‘communities’ devoted to the Bishnupriya Manipuri community in Orkut have seen a staggering growth. And so the responsibilities of the owners maintaining these communities have increased. Members joining these communities must be now diligent to their activities.

By Rishikesh Sinha, New Delhi

We all have witnessed how the social networking site like Orkut has developed itself to the present stage. Ask any active Orkuttians, the gradual progression that took place in the Orkut. They will nod a ‘yes’ answer. Now, users have more control over their profile than it was before. And it is a good sign and especially at this time when ‘privacy’ is taken seriously and given due importance. Things are changing fast in Orkut, as new and innovative features are being added daily; thus enabling us to express in much better way to our friends and to all those who are associated with us.

All is not well

Unfortunately, it has a flip side as well. The unfathomable impact and influence Orkut has, comes falling down as house of cards when the so called moderators and community owners brazenly click ‘delete’ button. I suppose, we all Bishnupriya Manipuri people (active in online and in Orkut), who have listening to our amar thar joined to couple of Brishnupriya Manipuri Orkut’s communities, know it. When they went to the particular community and found all their writings had been deleted. By doing so, the community owner has not only lost the faith of its member, but it has deleted the richness that comes from the strings of messages that were created by the people who have poured in their heart and soul to their creation. Now, it is the turn of the members to show their strength. How? Unjoin from the community who hasn't respected your emotions. Simple. One more thing, if you find that while joining any Bishnupriya Manipuri community, it needs approval from the owner. It is better not to join in such community. After all, how many Brishnupriya Manipuri people are bestowed with the Internet facility? It is a complete nonsense act.

No doubt, writing in the Orkut’s community is just like participating in a personalized ‘Group Discussion’ where candidates sit opposite to each other and contradict and support their views. There are many pluses while participating in the community’s forum. First, the communication is direct to the receiver. Second, it is just like one-to-one session. You bark, you put theories, churn out history supporting your facts. Third, nobody is there from outside to watch you and your online activities. Thus, you are safe! Fourth, the feeling of oneness and belongingness that shrouds you. However, the particular Bishnupriya Manipuri community owner has, hitherto unknowingly failed to give the environment to its members for which they all had come.

Another serious concern related to these so called Bishnupriya Manipuri community owners is misusing of their power by banning many members. It seems they are running to their unbridled whims and fancies. It is not that all are same. Some owners are very responsible. Here is one of my well kept secret that I have been keeping close to my heart: I have been banned in one of the Brishnupriya Manipuri community! I got aghast to find the truth that the owner has banned me. Obviously, very funny! Not an issue.

Members Beware

Now, coming to those members who end up writing 300 word plus write ups in forums, they should NOT become a nincompoop. And must understand the energy and time they pour in to their writings should be respected, appreciated or at least made available to innumerable readers online. However, they must know that the rich content that they have created in Orkut are not indexed, cached by search crawlers. They don’t have any significance in online. Once deleted, as it has happened this time, it can’t be retrieved and hence your whole effort comes to naught, unappreciated. If you love writing and don’t want to face such harassment, launch your own website, blog or participate to other blogs and websites maintained by a few. This will give you a truly devoted wide audience. That you can’t even imagine.

Conclusion

It is not that one should not become the part of any community. Communities do help us to come close and interact with each other. Ironically, it comes for many a playground and, for many a battlefield and a discussion table. With such activities taking place in the communities, the owners must be responsible and use their power judiciously. Since at the end of the day, we are very few and can’t allow anyone to harbour feeling of animosity and mutual disrespectedness.

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Comments

  1. same case with me too Rishi... me too banned from one comm...and in a separate one i have also been participating in most of the serious social topics and also seen many responsible erudite youths in that forum with their thoughts , few of them carried fair amount of richness in information and documents... but one fine day i realised that all the topics had been deleted.... the so called moderators/owners just cudn't understand the intensity of the topics and did that infantile act... by doing so they proved themselves as most irresponsible and juvenile and also their act has shown a gesture of disrespect to the fellow members... i strongly condemn the act... i suggest them to rename their forum as " BM- the childish affairs"....poor kids they need proper guidance to grow up.....

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  2. hi guys.......wow,brilliant work blaming on others without knowing everything well.....

    wud u plz tel me hw many times u visit dat community a week...???

    Ans: i gues may b once in 3 weeks....

    wen u ppl r not regular in dat comm,discussing in d forum topics...hw wud u knw wat's goin on around der....???? n to my surprise u cam up here nw wid dese complaints...

    wher wer u ppl wen d community needed u...????

    @Mr. highly respected,B N or whoever u r......u've seen me posting der frequently in d forum topics n i've seen u too....nw hw on earth u can think dat i may hav deleted d topics,coz i've also wasted my precious tym n labour jst as u've...jst coz m d owner...

    @Mr. the ultimate showman,AXIS or whoever u r.....thanks fr ur concern abt d community...bt u raised ur voice in d wrong direction....hav u ever posted in any of d topics der,may b topic of high regards or jst funny topics...???
    nw wen u've nt even posted one,hw cud u feel d stress n labour fellow members hav put in writng der...??
    Mr.......i've posted der much much much frequently than U or Mr. B N,i knw hw does it feel to waste ur precious tym writng der,nw d same question....hw on earth u can think dat i may hav deleted d topics...???

    i request u ppl humbly to at first think of all d possible reasons n rhymes of any matter n den try to through in sum light into it....by wrting lyk dis without knowing all the reasons n details abt d matter,U both hav done CHILDISH ACTS here....hope u won't commit dese mistakes again in d near future.....

    ...SUNIT...

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  3. Dear Mr Sumit Sinha..

    It is a real fact that when ever one is attacked by someone for his or her deeds it hurts a lot and more when the person knows that whatever said is very much true. After reading this comment I am sure that you are the real owner of BM orkut comm who is not at all sorry for his deeds. It is really very sad to know that in spite of apologizing of what u have done in the Orkut BM comm u r attacking the viewers. I dont know what made u so offended.

    As you said that you have wasted your precious time posting in the comm and that you have asked Mr BN how he thought that you have deleted the threads. What do u want MR BN to think that Sunit Sinha might be the owner yet how will he delete the threads as he has also wasted his time and energy to post there. Mr Sunit u are the owner and how come somebody else delete anything without your permission.

    Or do you want to say that as people did not visit the comm u deleted the threads. Give some valid reasons Mr Sumit. U are playing with the sentiments of the viewers.

    You may say that u have never seen me in the Bm orkut community. Yet for what reason i m writing all this. Yes , i m not a member yet i am a silent spectator of BM comm in orkut and this BM blog and m sure there are lots like me. I never participated in the activities of the community, may be because of my age or may be some other reason yet i always enjoyed seeing the younger lot participate actively in the comm. Some times i thought of participating but now i am very happy that i have not participated because at the end of the day i would have found that whatever was written by me had been deleted with out my notice.

    Orkut BM community was very active until you deleted the funny topic slap from the list. I dont know what made you to delete it and than one day you all of a sudden delete all the threads. May be u have not done it but who is concerned. U are the owner how come u say that the threads were deleted without your notice. Nobody is going to busy all these reasons.

    So, stop blaming others and think twice before u say anything to others and hope u won't commit such mistakes again in the near future.

    Best of luck and regards,

    Bimal Sinha, Ghy

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  4. @ Mr. silent spectator BIMAL SINHA.....


    my answer to ur first para - u wrote "It is a real fact that when ever one is attacked by someone for his or her deeds it hurts a lot and more when the person knows that whatever said is very much true.",nw without knowing d matter well enough,hw can u say dat these ppl are very true n m not...??? did ur sixth sense say dat..??

    "After reading this comment I am sure that you are the real owner of BM orkut comm who is not at all sorry for his deeds. It is really very sad to know that in spite of apologizing of what u have done in the Orkut BM comm u r attacking the viewers. I dont know what made u so offended.",m feeling offended coz without a single percent of my fault m being charged here by u all....was my fault dat i created dis community???was my fault dat i thought our fellow BM ppl wud join n stay under a single shed called 'BM community'....???if it's my fault,den i must say dat m guilty n deserve punishment....

    ur 2nd para - "As you said that you have wasted your precious time posting in the comm and that you have asked Mr BN how he thought that you have deleted the threads. What do u want MR BN to think that Sunit Sinha might be the owner yet how will he delete the threads as he has also wasted his time and energy to post there. Mr Sunit u are the owner and how come somebody else delete anything without your permission.".....lemme ask u sumthng,hav u ever been an owner or a moderator to a community????...i gues 'NO' coz i think u wer busy staying silent n spectate at d ongoin matters,so fr ur kindest information MR.,a moderator can also make any sort of changes in d respective community,blv it or not.....n nw u cam up here pointing me d deed i've never done....wow,great work my frnd....

    ur 3rd para - "Or do you want to say that as people did not visit the comm u deleted the threads. Give some valid reasons Mr Sumit. U are playing with the sentiments of the viewers."....m nt playing wid d sentiments of d viewers bt u ppl r blaming onto me without any of my fault....

    ur 4th para - " You may say that u have never seen me in the Bm orkut community. Yet for what reason i m writing all this. Yes , i m not a member yet i am a silent spectator of BM comm in orkut and this BM blog and m sure there are lots like me. I never participated in the activities of the community, may be because of my age or may be some other reason yet i always enjoyed seeing the younger lot participate actively in the comm. Some times i thought of participating but now i am very happy that i have not participated because at the end of the day i would have found that whatever was written by me had been deleted with out my notice."....may i knw d reason behind ur nt takng participation..???may b u thought like it wud b a waste of time joining a community named after ur origin...my origin....right...???

    ur 5th para - "Orkut BM community was very active until you deleted the funny topic slap from the list.".....Mr. without knowing wel u can't blame it on me,rather go n seek answers from NILOTPAL....one day before dat got deleted,NILOTPAL asked me to giv him moderators' right so dat he cud make necessary changes,i gav him wat he wants n d next mornin i too found dat topic deleted....so,go n ask MR. NILOTPAL seeking ur answers,n fr deletion of all d topics,go n seek ur answers from TRIDIV,nt me......both of dese wer moderators.....

    ur 6th para - "So, stop blaming others and think twice before u say anything to others and hope u won't commit such mistakes again in the near future."........dis statement suits u d best,think before u speak....

    u ppl r lot elder than me,so plzz think a lot before u speak n blame it on me....

    wid regards..........SUNIT....

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  5. @ Mr Sunit

    It is always commendable to ur thought that u created the community. I can also understand the authority of the owners and moderators. If u read again my detesting post u can see that i had pointed to both owners and moderators of the particular community.It was definitely unpleasant to see that all the topics were deleted, as i believe there were many rich documents by many profound BM brothers and sisters. One other thing i like to urge u is that it is the captain of a team who is generally held responsible for both win and loss of the team sometime for offending behavior of the team mates also. I must say u r a responsible captain but it was unfortunate on ur part that u had given authority in wrong hands.However u r at least u coming with clarifications without using unpleasant words is appreciable. No hard feelings though,lets have spirit and be professional.
    Regards

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  6. @ b n sinha.....

    Da,i already apologized fr dat happening in d community itself.....m too feeling sorry fr dat coz u've also seen me participating in d forum topics every nw n den,nw wen i'm so interested in d ongoin discussions,hw can i do dat....???

    i admit dat my mistake was to give authority to wrong hands,i gues.....i shudn't hav given any sort of moderators' rights to anyone....m sorry again fr dat....

    i felt more offended when Mr.BIMAL SINHA held me totally responsible fr dat.....

    nw i've removed any single moderator frm dat community n if anything wrong goes nw,den blame it on me totally,i'll accept dat happily....

    i request u n d other fellow members to plz start d discussions again n continue wid more topics,better than before,in d community.....i assure u all dat no such happenings wil occur nw.....

    wid regards..........SUNIT.....

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  7. @Mr.Sunit
    Ur quote..

    "one day before dat got deleted,NILOTPAL asked me to giv him moderators' right so dat he cud make necessary changes,i gav him wat he wants n d next mornin i too found dat topic deleted....so,go n ask MR. NILOTPAL seeking ur answers,n fr deletion of all d topics".....Howcome u made somebody a moderator of tht BM community without knowing that person properly...!!!!!....n now u want us to ask him for the deletion of all that topic!!..shockin...well..as a owner of that communtiy..did u ever ask him why he deleted those threads...n if u did then plz let us know..wht he answered....

    Regards..

    Pratim.........

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  8. @Mr.Sunit

    ...i was an active member of that community...so..i can tell what exactly had happened...u said Mr.nilotpal deleted those topic...n thtz true...i know...coz Nilotpal himself mentioned that he deleted those perticular threads...but...after all tohse crap he was still the moderator of that community!!!...WHY??..i want the answer.......i was really shocked...n embarrissed..

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  9. I don't think I have blamed on anybody.Just I have put my concern.However I don't see I have added anybody's name.

    Isn't?

    It was the fact i faced and along with me scores of people who have felt they have been cheated.

    And at the same time I pour some of the bitter facts about going online.

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