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(Sticky) Welcome to Orisla

Welcome to Orisla, Islanders.

Here is a little information on what the site and larger project hope to accomplish, and then we will get into how it pays to engage.

This project was created as a means of providing every person with everything they need to lead a happy and successful life. It's accomplished by using this platform to gain the funds necessary to modernize the emergency shelter system into fully self-sufficient neighborhoods with onsite case coordination to ensure needs are being met.

The programs on this site will come in the form of amenities and services, all engineered to be fun with a focus on improving relationships between individuals and organizations. Most features on the site are free to use, others will pay you, and there are optional paid services to help you succeed.

For instance, the Reward Tab allows businesses to pay you to watch their advertisements and go on quests for site rewards and financial compensation.

The emergency shelters we will be constructing will not be bunk beds in a building with many other families / strangers, but will be homes and apartments with enough rooms and garden space to feed the family as well as provide the means for extra income in a variety of ways.

If you were to utilize a shelter in the Midwest USA at this time, you could expect to attend regular (sometimes daily) religious gatherings that may be in conflict with your culture. Your primary job would be to do chores for the building in exchange for residency, and your time out of the building may be restricted to as few as two hours a day. In addition, there may be social conflicts. It may be in dangerous areas with high crime and pressure. There may be bed bugs or roaches. If you have no vehicle, no job, and a family, it's easy to feel hopeless.

Imagine being in that position. Imagine being threatened with eviction for being out longer than two hours because it takes three to walk to and from the employment office. When you get back to the room you realize your partner got the same threat for a different reason: they had to watch your children and still try to do chores. As a result, the chores weren't fully completed. So, you have to finish the chores after "Chapel", turning down an offer to buy a small amount of drugs to take the edge off as you do. Once finished, you spend the first real time with your children. You have to make it quick, though, because lights out is coming up fast. Then, you lie down on an uncomfortable, stained mattress with thin sheets, trying to sleep through the bites so you can do it again tomorrow, all while the strangers around you do the same.

We can do better than that, right?

This project seeks to amend the above experience in the following ways.

Once you arrive on site with your family, you are shown to an apartment that is waiting for you. It has been cleaned, items have been replaced, and it is already furnished. There are clean clothes and a hot shower waiting for you, and the fridge is already stocked. The person guiding you to your apartment then gives you the key, and gives you a chance to freshen up before showing you the rest of the area. In the meantime you're free to explore the apartment or house, as well as the backyard. You will have enough garden space to grow enough food for your family, or it can be repurposed for other projects if you don't need a garden. You will also have a form of renewable energy in your yard that will produce enough wealth to cover your rent and maintenance of the unit, and give you a little bit of spending cash each month.

From there, you can resume the tour and see the community area where there are tools and crafts to build skills, create art, socialize, or play. The surrounding area is an event space with monthly planned events with the option of creative input and engagement from you and the other residents. The event space also has different options for conducting business, including vendor areas, cafes, etc.

From there, you're in charge of what you do and how you spend your time.

Intervention comes in if you engage in behaviors that are dangerous to yourself or others. This is determined by physical harm as well as emotional or mental abuse. For this reason, it is important to meet with a professional once a month who will help ensure you and your family are thriving. If you are engaging in abusive behaviors without realizing it, the professional will help you improve your dynamics and work with you to create a plan. If you're willing to put effort in, you're not going to be evicted.

After some time and planning you may be interested in finding fulfilling work based on your passions (maybe even a new one that you've only just discovered).

So you look for some work, but it isn't like it was before. This time around, you have the option to be choosy about what work you do. Your needs are met, so no employer is able to give you poor working conditions. If you arrive at a job and it isn't what you agreed on, you can afford to just leave if it cannot be salvaged. Maybe you would work at a job that can't afford to pay you as much as you'd like, but you decide to stay just because you enjoy it.

No matter what you do, you can quickly save up for the down-payment on a home. These units are not intended to house anyone indefinitely, though that is an option if needed. So you put a down-payment on a home and move out.

It may take as little as six months to a year.

Coming in with nothing, and leaving with new skills, new friends, a new job, and a new home.

How does it pay to engage?

1. The first and easiest way to get paid to engage is to use the Rewards Tab. Businesses will place their ads here and pay you to watch them. In addition, financial rewards can be given for the completion of quests, also located in the rewards tab.

2. The second way to get paid to engage is to comment something useful under a post. This will likely be easier if you are offering an expert opinion or advice. People are more likely to reward your contribution if it is well constructed and credible. If your contribution is not being well received, you can use our rating system to find out why. The ratings are below every topic and comment and provide 1 word feedback as to why the user giving the rating does or does not want to see more contributions like yours.

3. Creating a Topic or running a Sub-Category. Users who create Topics or Sub-Categories will be in charge of moderating them, but will also receive the majority share of each Recognition shared within that Topic or Sub-Category. For instance: if you make a topic that someone else comments in, if the person who commented receives Recognition, so do you. A breakdown of who gets what and how much is provided at the end of the list.

4. Running a shop. Use the Shop tab to make a shop. You can also click the box in your profile management area that says "Hire me for support" to become available for hire to other individuals who are running a shop.

5. Content Collaboration Option. If you have created content and would like to get more eyes on it, you are welcome to send a request for collaboration to a business in the rewards tab. If you are able to negotiate with the business: viewers will get paid to watch your content, and you will receive a portion of the advertising budget for every viewing.

Here is a quick breakdown of how much you'll receive:

Topics:

Recognition given to a Topic:

User who made the topic: 50%

Site: 50%

Note: If you create a Topic with a Paywall, you will receive 90% of the Recognition given to access content behind the paywall and the site will receive 10%

Recognition given to comment within a Topic:

User who made topic: 10%

User who received recognition: 45%

Site: 45%

Sub-Categories:

Recognition given to a Topic in a Sub-Category:

User who made topic: 60%

Creator of the Sub-Category: 20%

Site: 20%

Note: this is the same for Paywalls created in Sub-Categories

Recognition given to a comment in a Topic in a Sub-Category:

User who made the comment: 60%

User who made the topic: 10%

User who created the Sub-Category: 10%

Site: 20%

(Also, here is a reminder of the suggested site rules. If you would like to participate in the discussion to update or alter these rules, please follow this link: https://orisla.com/network/all/326 )

Minor - Warning
1. Failing to utilize site designations correctly (we should anticipate most new users will need some direction here. The site designations can be confusing at first).
2. Posting someone else's content without citing a source / indicating it is Not OC (Not original content)
3. Spamming Comments
4. Inappropriate username / avatar

Medium - Bans: 1 day to 1 week
1. Speech that is attacking individuals or groups
2. Failing to adjust accordingly following repeated warnings
3. Attempting to steal the content from other users for financial gain
4. Posting NSFW content outside of a NSFW designated sub-category

Major - Block
1. Failing to adjust accordingly following repeated bans
2. Scamming others / Posting links to Phishing or harmful sites
3. Impersonating another individual, or pretending to represent an organization

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Sunrise? or Sunset?

Me both got to share our sunset vibes here, last week.

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Help For Survivors

I wanted to make a safe place for survivors to come together since many survivors aren't able to share publicly for concern of traffickers finding them. I tried to do this on Facebook but they refused to even respond & we learned through congressional hearings that they do not keep our info private

The first post in this thread is from Amanda Buys Kanaan Ministries where she posts over 900 specific prayers in pdf form to download without charge - the first one I'm posting is a renouncement prayer for oaths taken by ancestors in Masonic rituals

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WBAN

In 2020, I noticed the metal light poles going up in the country by the farming lands - they're almost twice the size of the regular light poles. I came across this podcast that includes some important content (you just have to get past the condescending tone - I only began learning about these technologies 4yrs ago but want to keep learning). I guess besides this info being important the point for podcasters is to be respectful towards your audience - This vid is Mirrored - not my content

https://rumble.com/v42fpnn-wban-denial-support.html

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Posted by: Orisla Admin

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Last reply: Jannah

Sitewide Update: Changes to Sub-Categories and Shops! (Updated 3/18)

Hello Islanders!

We have made some changes to the site, some noticeable and some.... less so.

You may have noticed we have shops now! This is still in beta so let us know if you run into any snags. We've been hard at work for this for a while, and they're still getting new features all the time.

Shops:
- Private and public sub-categories attached to your shop (and vice versa).

- Roles can be added to your shops (recognition split but with specific permissions and multiple users in one Role)

- Stock (no sales will go through if you run out of stock)

- Sales

- Image carousel for your listings

- We fixed some bugs that were causing your forms and listings to not save / erase progress during the shop creation stage

- We updated the design!

- We can now remove shops

Rewards:

- You won't be stepping on eachothers toes when obtaining Recognition from Rewards anymore!

Sub-Categories:

- Your sub-category descriptions can now be as long as you want!

- You can have a custom banner for your sub-category! (We are still updating this)

- You can see how many people are following a sub-category and how much Recognition has been exchanged there!

- Coming soon: You'll be able to see the top adjectives used to rate other users in the description

- We have updated the banner uploading process so you can crop the image you're using

- You can now request access to a private sub-category from a link to that specific sub-category

(Also, here is a reminder of the site rules. If you would like to participate in the discussion to update or alter these rules, please follow this link: https://orisla.com/network/all/326 )

Minor - Warning
1. Failing to utilize site designations correctly (we should anticipate most new users will need some direction here. The site designations can be confusing at first).
2. Posting someone else's content without citing a source / indicating it is Not OC (Not original content)
3. Spamming Comments
4. Inappropriate username / avatar

Medium - Bans: 1 day to 1 week
1. Speech that is attacking individuals or groups
2. Failing to adjust accordingly following repeated warnings
3. Attempting to steal the content from other users for financial gain
4. Posting NSFW content outside of a NSFW designated sub-category

Major - Block, Site-wide Block
1. Failing to adjust accordingly following repeated bans
2. Scamming others / Posting links to Phishing or harmful sites
3. Impersonating another individual, or pretending to represent an organization

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What is your stress reliever?

Mine is going to the beach! I hope in the future I have money to build a house by the beach.

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Anime Lover's

Hi,

I will be sharing our One Piece collections here.

Here is Luffy Gear 5.

Please feel free to share yours too.

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Crazy thoughts

Light's on?
when?

Lights off?
when?
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Me:
light's off when sleeping time (with the company)

light's on when alone (in the house). I am a scary cat!

Share yours, lol!

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Lasting Friendships

How do you deal with conflict in friendships? I am trying to find ways to make friendships last. You may comment on other ways you make friendships last.

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What's your plan this summer?

Summer is fast approaching! Where will you go? I need ideas! LOL

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Ramadan 2024

March 11 2024 - First day of Ramadan in GCC countries.

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