Please remove R E D D I T from the banned words list
#1
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
Please remove R E D D I T from the banned words list
R E D D I T is one of the most popular news websites in the world. Why is it a bad word like ****, ****, *******?
It's my understanding that, several years ago, some spammers were posting links to that domain.
Please remove ****** from the banned words list.
If not, please explain why it is there.
It's my understanding that, several years ago, some spammers were posting links to that domain.
Please remove ****** from the banned words list.
If not, please explain why it is there.
#2
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
Because they are a bunch of crazed (blanks) sometimes and cause too much mischief.
I'd insert a picture of Gene Rayburn here but vB has ceased to work in IE and the photo uploader stalls at 100% or just doesn't work at all in Firefox.
All vB versions I use in IE are broken.
I'd insert a picture of Gene Rayburn here but vB has ceased to work in IE and the photo uploader stalls at 100% or just doesn't work at all in Firefox.
All vB versions I use in IE are broken.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#3
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
Because they are a bunch of crazed (blanks) sometimes and cause too much mischief.
I'd insert a picture of Gene Rayburn here but vB has ceased to work in IE and the photo uploader stalls at 100% or just doesn't work at all in Firefox.
All vB versions I use in IE are broken.
I'd insert a picture of Gene Rayburn here but vB has ceased to work in IE and the photo uploader stalls at 100% or just doesn't work at all in Firefox.
All vB versions I use in IE are broken.
#4
Banned.
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 292
Mentioned: 38 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 126 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
Because they are a bunch of crazed (blanks) sometimes and cause too much mischief.
I'd insert a picture of Gene Rayburn here but vB has ceased to work in IE and the photo uploader stalls at 100% or just doesn't work at all in Firefox.
All vB versions I use in IE are broken.
I'd insert a picture of Gene Rayburn here but vB has ceased to work in IE and the photo uploader stalls at 100% or just doesn't work at all in Firefox.
All vB versions I use in IE are broken.
#6
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
Ask Paul. I dunno, vB is on the fritz in general for me. Unrelated but also a prob is one site that migrated to a new server last week and it's a Where's Waldo moment if I an find them from any link or even after clearing and typing it in fresh.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#8
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
I just squish 'em.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#10
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
Please "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
It's literally the #3 most visited site in the US and #6 most visited in the world.
Right now it's possible for a user post links to inappropriate content on YouTube, FB, Vimeo, IG and explicit content on Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, etc...and that user will simply be admonished or banned. But, the sites would not be blacklisted. It's clear that the criteria for which a site may be banned isn't applied to all popular sites.
Yes, individual user behavior was why the ban was originally made. There is no way that Stormcrowe would know how big and mainstream ****** would become.
I humbly submit that this rule should be reevaluated.
Last edited by carleton; 10-26-18 at 01:02 PM. Reason: typo: reevaluated not evaluated
#11
Banned.
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 292
Mentioned: 38 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 126 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time
in
1 Post
OK. That was about 7 or 8 years ago. I believe Stormcrowe (RIP) implemented that rule.
Please "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
It's literally the #3 most visited site in the US and #6 most visited in the world.
Right now it's possible for a user post links to inappropriate content on YouTube, FB, Vimeo, IG and explicit content on Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, etc...and that user will simply be admonished or banned. But, the sites would not be blacklisted. It's clear that the criteria for which a site may be banned isn't applied to all popular sites.
Yes, individual user behavior was why the ban was originally made. There is no way that Stormcrowe would know how big and mainstream ****** would become.
I humbly submit that this rule should be reevaluated.
Please "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
It's literally the #3 most visited site in the US and #6 most visited in the world.
Right now it's possible for a user post links to inappropriate content on YouTube, FB, Vimeo, IG and explicit content on Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, etc...and that user will simply be admonished or banned. But, the sites would not be blacklisted. It's clear that the criteria for which a site may be banned isn't applied to all popular sites.
Yes, individual user behavior was why the ban was originally made. There is no way that Stormcrowe would know how big and mainstream ****** would become.
I humbly submit that this rule should be reevaluated.
#13
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2014
Posts: 2,537
Bikes: yes
Mentioned: 18 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1281 Post(s)
Liked 643 Times
in
329 Posts
OK. That was about 7 or 8 years ago. I believe Stormcrowe (RIP) implemented that rule.
Please "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
It's literally the #3 most visited site in the US and #6 most visited in the world.
Right now it's possible for a user post links to inappropriate content on YouTube, FB, Vimeo, IG and explicit content on Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, etc...and that user will simply be admonished or banned. But, the sites would not be blacklisted. It's clear that the criteria for which a site may be banned isn't applied to all popular sites.
Yes, individual user behavior was why the ban was originally made. There is no way that Stormcrowe would know how big and mainstream ****** would become.
I humbly submit that this rule should be reevaluated.
Please "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater."
It's literally the #3 most visited site in the US and #6 most visited in the world.
Right now it's possible for a user post links to inappropriate content on YouTube, FB, Vimeo, IG and explicit content on Twitter, Tumblr, Blogspot, etc...and that user will simply be admonished or banned. But, the sites would not be blacklisted. It's clear that the criteria for which a site may be banned isn't applied to all popular sites.
Yes, individual user behavior was why the ban was originally made. There is no way that Stormcrowe would know how big and mainstream ****** would become.
I humbly submit that this rule should be reevaluated.
Moreover, there's actually a lot of valuable info on there, even though there's a lot of terrible things too. I.e., it's just like the rest of the internet.
#14
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
I think the problem has to do with the number of sub-******s that can run into what the owners and management could call not safe for work. It's a lot harder for a group of volunteer moderators who have other things in life as well as BF and it's much easier for it to get out of hand.
Verifying all this constantly can create saddle sores.
Tom Stormcrowe was a very wise man, and Siu Blue Wind looked up to him as a good friend. His absence hasn't suddenly made that wisdom obsolete.
That site is the Wild West, and when you have to qualify it with yeah, it's a mess in spots the conservative and sound thing for a site with around 200,000 registered members (active or not) is to protect the site. This is the largest authority on cycling issues on the internet after all. As long as members of all ages and sensibilities come here then they can be them and BF will be BF.
Verifying all this constantly can create saddle sores.
Tom Stormcrowe was a very wise man, and Siu Blue Wind looked up to him as a good friend. His absence hasn't suddenly made that wisdom obsolete.
That site is the Wild West, and when you have to qualify it with yeah, it's a mess in spots the conservative and sound thing for a site with around 200,000 registered members (active or not) is to protect the site. This is the largest authority on cycling issues on the internet after all. As long as members of all ages and sensibilities come here then they can be them and BF will be BF.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#15
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
I think the problem has to do with the number of sub-******s that can run into what the owners and management could call not safe for work. It's a lot harder for a group of volunteer moderators who have other things in life as well as BF and it's much easier for it to get out of hand.
Verifying all this constantly can create saddle sores.
Tom Stormcrowe was a very wise man, and Siu Blue Wind looked up to him as a good friend. His absence hasn't suddenly made that wisdom obsolete.
That site is the Wild West, and when you have to qualify it with yeah, it's a mess in spots the conservative and sound thing for a site with around 200,000 registered members (active or not) is to protect the site. This is the largest authority on cycling issues on the internet after all. As long as members of all ages and sensibilities come here then they can be them and BF will be BF.
Verifying all this constantly can create saddle sores.
Tom Stormcrowe was a very wise man, and Siu Blue Wind looked up to him as a good friend. His absence hasn't suddenly made that wisdom obsolete.
That site is the Wild West, and when you have to qualify it with yeah, it's a mess in spots the conservative and sound thing for a site with around 200,000 registered members (active or not) is to protect the site. This is the largest authority on cycling issues on the internet after all. As long as members of all ages and sensibilities come here then they can be them and BF will be BF.
Further, the YouTube comment section is known for being some of the most toxic on the internet.
My point is that moderation of ****** should be on a case-by-case basis, not with a heavy-handed ban of everything.
As ksryder states, "it's just like the rest of the internet."
I worked with Tom on the moderator team here. He was a fair and reasonable admin. I think that when the ban was implemented, ****** was largely unknown. Digg was the popular user-submitted "look what I found on the internet" site back then. Then Digg was rocked with a few discrediting scandals and a critical mass of users moved over to ****** and that's how ****** grew to what it is now. Recall that I am the internet. I was there when it happened
Last edited by carleton; 10-26-18 at 11:46 PM. Reason: typo
#16
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
I don't work here and I'm not going to argue that to death. I have also seen R enough lately and I don't see where Tom's guidelines have lost any of their merit.
I'm on record however as not being fond of it.
I'm on record however as not being fond of it.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#17
Randomhead
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Happy Valley, Pennsylvania
Posts: 24,399
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Liked 3,699 Times
in
2,519 Posts
it wasn't 7-8 years ago. I recommended it be added to the censor and I haven't been a mod that long. Tom might have been in charge of the censor back when it was done. People still try to post links to movie spam from there, which is why it is censored. I never saw any reason why there needed to be links to another forum anyway.
#18
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
it wasn't 7-8 years ago. I recommended it be added to the censor and I haven't been a mod that long. Tom might have been in charge of the censor back when it was done. People still try to post links to movie spam from there, which is why it is censored. I never saw any reason why there needed to be links to another forum anyway.
Are FB Groups not another forum as well?...and those forums are, by all accounts, eating BF’s lunch, yet they are permitted.
#19
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
I doubt BF starves.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#20
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
@Rollfast, hey, man. With all due respect, Please just refrain from defending BF incessantly in the threads I make. That question was directly and obviously to @unterhausen.
Some quick stats:
- 19 posts in this thread.
- 6 of them are from you.
- 0 of your posts are on-topic.
You are not helping and you are hurting the discussion by distracting others.
Some quick stats:
- 19 posts in this thread.
- 6 of them are from you.
- 0 of your posts are on-topic.
You are not helping and you are hurting the discussion by distracting others.
#21
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
@Rollfast, I appreciate the chatter...in another context.
This forum is essentially an unofficial bug reporting system. Discussion and chatter wouldn't be welcome in a bug report. That's what we have the other forums for
This forum is essentially an unofficial bug reporting system. Discussion and chatter wouldn't be welcome in a bug report. That's what we have the other forums for
#22
Randomhead
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Happy Valley, Pennsylvania
Posts: 24,399
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Liked 3,699 Times
in
2,519 Posts
competition really isn't my concern here, you would have to ask IB about that. I just think the mod team workload has been reduced by censoring the site name of a source of spam. I don't particularly see the need to change it. Don't we accept link shortener links?
#23
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
So, is it about objectionable content? Spam? Viruses? or Bad users?
When you get bad users posting links to Twitter, do you ban Twitter or the users? Please answer.
#24
What happened?
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Around here somewhere
Posts: 7,927
Bikes: 3 Rollfasts, 3 Schwinns, a Shelby and a Higgins Flightliner in a pear tree!
Mentioned: 57 Post(s)
Tagged: 1 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1835 Post(s)
Liked 292 Times
in
255 Posts
Now, both unterhausen and IBThomas have provided you answers. I hope they were of assistance.
__________________
I don't know nothing, and I memorized it in school and got this here paper I'm proud of to show it.
#25
Elitist
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 15,965
Mentioned: 88 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1386 Post(s)
Liked 92 Times
in
77 Posts
Any update, @unterhausen?