Here you can find answers to questions about how the board works. Use the links or search box below to find your way around.
In addition to normal internet privacy issues we are aware that some users have additional concerns about their use of ARRSE and ensuring anonymity. For most cases there is little to be worry about. ARRSE use is widespread across the rank range, generally accepted as normal rather than subversive - you're not about to fail your DV interview because you read ARRSE (although your posting of recruiting material for Islamic Jihad might be more of an issue).
Anyway, to fully address privacy and security concerns, we wrote a detailed article about security and privacy here in our wiki.
The article concludes with the following summary advice:
The level of protection against unauthorised access on ARRSE is appropriate considering the very limited user information we hold and the resulting threat. We take information protection very seriously but try not to unnecessarily complicate site use through OTT protection measures. As with all internet use a large part of the security burden must be borne by the user so...
If you find the risk of compromise significant after reading this [the full article]:
Regardless of that:
Tips and many general questions are answered in our wiki, the ARRSEPedia. You may find the following pages of use. Please note though that we upgraded the site softwar ein July 10 to a completely new system and it will take a while for the pages below to catch up. The last in particular refers mostly to the old software. Sorry for any confusion.
ARRSE is owned by Olive Net Ltd, an Exeter based web development company that was formed from the original Army Rumour Service Limited (in turn formed from just plain old back-of-a-fag-packet ARRSE in 2003)
Olive Net designs and develops its own software and websites (see our portfolio), although ARRSE is currently running a modified version of the commercial software system that runs it; vBulletin.
Detailed information for advertisers is given on the Olive Net website.
Olive Net Ltd and the Army Rumour Service are in no way linked to the Ministry of Defence. Any complaint to the MoD about site content will at best only be forwarded to us.
The Army Rumour Service administrators and moderators do monitor and control site content while attempting to apply the minimum possible censorship. The target audience for the site is adult and accustomed to rough language and behaviour, and some content does and indeed should reflect that.
Restrictions are placed on the nature of the content in different sections of the site according to this policy, and warnings are posted in the more controversial areas.
Users 'own' and are responsible for the content of their own posts, as defined in the membership agreement accepted on creation of an account: "...you acknowledge that all posts made to this website express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster.....".
Because of sheer traffic volume it is not possible to monitor all content published by users on the site and much of the responsibility for monitoring behaviour and content is shared by all site users. The site is a live medium, and we can only exercise editorial powers after content has been posted and if the offending material is seen or brought to our attention .
The vast majority of editorial activity on the site is by the 'moderators'. A team of trusted long-term users with the power to edit and delete posts. Also the site owners / administrators (usernames: Good CO and Bad CO) can edit content, although try not to where possible. This is to avoid 'treading on the toes' of the moderators.
The site is aimed squarely at adult military users, and the language and content should and does reflect that of military society. The type of social behaviour and conversation acceptable to a military audience sometimes differs from that of civilian society, although often no offence is meant by the more robust site content. Please view site content in this context.
General complaints by registered site members regarding abuse of the forum guidelines above should be directed to the moderator of the forum section concerned (username listed under the description of each board in the header of the board itself, above the list of topics).
The moderators may be contacted by the site personal message system.
**Note** Moderators may be away at times, so please check that messages have gone from your messaging outbox within a few days of writing. If not then contact another moderator or the site admin (email below).
Non-members are requested to register on the site (here) then use the personal message system.
For very serious and urgent complaints, or complaints about site moderators please email the site administrators using the form available here.
Complaints to the site admin will normally be answered within 24 hours, although there are only two part-time admin staff, so please be patient
Please include in any complaint a link to the offending content (copy and paste from the address bar in your web browser) or a good description of the its location (forum name, thread name, thread page number etc). This will make the task of dealing quickly with your complaint much easier.
Finally, the link to the complaints form again and if you feel you must use it then we apologise in advance and look forward to addressing the issue.
