Hate Clubs Mushroom on Orkut

If you happen to hate Big B's smug face, beaming across from every other channel, or those tireless 'K's' from Ekta Kapoor's 'soap factory', you now have space to vent your emotions.


Hate communities or hate clubs are becoming increasingly popular on social networking Web sites like Google-owned Orkut.

On Orkut, the Ekta Kapoor hate club leads the pack with a membership of nearly 76,468 and counting. Followed by Himesh Reshamiya (of the nasal twang) with 33,137 members; Shah Rukh Khan with 11,179; Greg Chappell with 7,659; yes, Mahatma Gandhi with 6,647; General Musharraf with 1,362; and the Big B with 1,410.

Psychiatrist Sameer Parekh feels that such communities have become popular as they appeal to our hatred for certain things. Very true, but why would anybody hate Mahatma Gandhi and even have the audacity to start a hate group dedicated to him?

“People have certain amount of hatred, dislikes and complexities and they get a chance to express it on such communities. But, there are very few people who give importance to such things. They reinforce your point of view and you join them without giving much thought,” explained Parekh.

It is one thing to start a community to express common dislikes about regular things in life. Such groups even have a humorous tone. But, it’s another issue altogether when communities on the Internet hurt the sentiments of others.
Social networking sites are thus coming up with new methods to prevent the abuse of communities on the Web.

A Google spokesperson said,
“We take the abuse fo Orkut seriously and are constantly developing new tools to review inappropriate content on the site. Orkut users can report content to our reviewers by clicking the ‘report as bogus’ button. There are also tools for community owners to delete posts or topics, ban users and delete anonymous posts.”

“But, at the same time, we put a certain amount of trust in our users to notify us of violations. We have also introduced a priority reporting tool. It makes life easier for the police to contact us when they get concerns about content on Orkut,” the Google spokesperson added.

So, it is evident that measures ARE being taken to check the misuse of social networking sites such as Orkut, but regulating such communities is what still remains a problem. However, a group that came to my notice on Orkut entitled “We Hate Caste Feeling” is something acceptable in times like ours.

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Delete All Photos From Your Orkut Album!

This is a very essential script for those who have a bulk images uploaded in their orkut album and now want upload fresh ones. This script will save lot of time as this will empty your album in no time.

How To Mass Delete Pics from My Album?

• Navigate to your album page
• Run this script in the address bar

javascript:alert("Mass Delete Photos from Album (by Lost Soul)");document.body.innerHTML+='<iframe name="ls" width="800" height="600"></iframe>';ls1=prompt("How many pics are there in your album?");i=ls1;function lostsoul(){i=i-1;deletePhoto(i);};void(setInterval(lostsoul,2000))

• Enter the number of pics in your album when you are prompted for.
• The Script will do the rest.
  

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Awesome New Feature - Hide Your Scrapbook from Strangers!

With yet another nail in the coffin, orkut staff is now taking some serious steps to cut down job of unwanted elements who often love to disturb ladies on orkut. Not long back orkut introduced a feature which enabled members to choose with whom they wanted to share their private data and one always felt a very important feature was missing. Better late than never, they have made that feature live.

Hide Your Scrapbook From Strangers !!!

No official word from orkut, but this feature is very much accessible. You just need to navigate to the privacy settings page of you orkut account to set your preferences.

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How to add more then 9 communities in related communities

Well guys you might have seen this on orkut that many communities are hacing more then nine communities as there related communities...

Here is a small trick to add more then 9 related communities.....


First go to the community you want to add related communities too...

See at the browser the link would be like :

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=XXXXXXX

Change this link to :

http://www.orkut.com/CommunitySearch.aspx?cmm=XXXXXXX

now click Enter or press Go...This page would load :

Start searching and adding communities with this cool trick..

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Orkut going to add Scrap Alert Feature

Orkut is growing better and better day by day..Now orkut says that it would be installing a new feature in few days called Scrap Alert...

With scrap alerts you can be on any orkut page and find out that you have received a scrap - that very minute. You could be browsing your friend's photos, and find out "hey! I just got a new scrap." Then you can click on the "Scrapbook" link to reply on the spot. This way you'll be free to explore all of orkut, comforted in the knowledge that when you have received a new scrap, you'll know about it that moment.

This Feature would be in our control means if we want to disable it we can do it from our settings page..

Orkut will be rolling this feature out over the new few days for all users

Happy Orkutting !!

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Is There a 'Scrap All Friends' Without Advertisements?

We guess everyone out here is fed up with scrap all spam. Those who once used to scrap all their friends to greet, now have an advertisement below their scraps. No doubt this looks odd and embarrassing. So today, we'll provide you a few tips to disable this advertisement below the scraps.

Here are a Couple of things You Can Do Disable Advertisements:

a> Use a scrap all script which is ad free :

• You can use Scrap All provided by Orkut Plus! (No Advertisements) - Click Here to Install


• Now Navigate to http://www.orkut.com/ScrapAll to use this feature


• Send scraps to your friends without any advertisement.

b>Disable Advertisements in Existing Scrap All Scripts :

Those who feel they have a better scrap all installed or are not comfortable installing/uninstalling again and again can use this method to disable advertisements. (Thanks Mr Nobody)

• Write the message in the text box which you want to send to all your friends.
• Now to disable the advertisements write <.script> without "." as shown in the screenshot.
• Now, send the ad free scraps.
• That is all :0)

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UserScript - Diwali Orkut Theme for Those Who Loved It !

For those who were wondering if they'll have to wait till the next diwali to enjoy the Orkut Diwali Theme, then here is some 'expected' good news for you. Mr Nobody has made a userscript of the diwali theme so that you can use it even whenever you like.

Works With: Firefox Most of the scripts work with Firefox. In case you don't have it installed, you can download Firefox from ====>HERE

How to Use This Script ?

• Install Grease Monkey in case you don't have it - Click Here
• Install Diwali Orkut Theme Script
• In case you have any problems downloading or operating these scripts, you must my friend Jerry's post read this tutorial.
• That is all :0)

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