Keeping orkut Beautiful!

Posted by Keyla Ribeiro, orkut Operations Team

We all love orkut, but no one likes to come accross profiles or communities of questionable content. It's important to keep in mind that orkut is a place for people to communicate freely about all sorts of topics -- but that doesn't mean anything can be posted on the site. Here are some guidelines to remind you what sorts of things will be removed when we become aware of their existence:

• Hate comments about race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, veteran status and sexual orientation or gender identity; we also do not tolerate direct threats of violence towards individuals.
• Content with child porn, pedophilia and frontal nudity.
• Profiles and communities that promote or encourage illegal and dangerous activities that could result in physical harm to the person committing the act or those around him/her.
• Defamatory profiles that imitate a real person; we'll remove them if we receive a full and complete report from the person being impersonated.

To file a report on any profile or community you believe may fall into any of the categories listed above, simply visit the profile or community in question and click the “report abuse” link. On profiles, this link will appear once you hover over the "more" link. We are counting on you to help us keep orkut nice and clean.

Stay beautiful!