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pneOn the ninth day of February, the proxy says to me:
ERROR
Access Denied by SmartFilter
The following error was encountered:
- Access Denied by SmartFilter: Forbidden, this page (http://www.deadjournal.com/) is categorized as: Extreme.
Request: GET / HTTP/1.0
[snip]
Host: www.deadjournal.com
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Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact the cache administrator if you feel this is incorrect.
(Only the HTML was even worse than that.)
First reaction: "Whatchu talkin' about, Willis?"
Second reaction: "Rats."
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Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 02:04 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 02:26 (UTC)However, sometimes the criteria they use to determine what's objectionable seem a bit... awkward to me.
For example, a while back, Google Images (http://images.google.com/) was blocked as "Sex". Which kind of makes sense, since you can find sexual images there, but it's still difficult if I want to use it to find legitimate images.
And now they've blocked DeadJournal for providing "Extreme" content... again, there are probably extreme views in some of the journals, but blocking the whole service because of that? Seems a bit overkill to me.
On the other hand, I haven't got a legitimate work need for that site, so I can't really complain against them. (Though if they blocked the main Google search, that would interfere with work.)
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Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 03:01 (UTC)Re:
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 03:03 (UTC)no subject
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 03:12 (UTC)Re:
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 03:19 (UTC)Do you post many memes? Coz you could add me to that filter if you don't! (Meaning the "What/Which .... are you?" ones).
"What XYZ are you?" quizzes
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 03:39 (UTC)But if I do, they'd go in the filter - it's a meme and a quiz filter.
Though I suppose a fair number of quizzes are memes, too. Bah, I don't know.
Anyway, I'll add you :) You can always be taken off later if you want.
Re: "What XYZ are you?" quizzes
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 06:07 (UTC)Re: "What XYZ are you?" quizzes
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 06:17 (UTC)Re: "What XYZ are you?" quizzes
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 06:40 (UTC)Re:
Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 08:00 (UTC)heh heh.
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Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 08:03 (UTC)(Can you imagine how much fun it is answering support requests in Lynx? Especially when you can't set your default site scheme to 'lynx' so you have to scroll past pages of navigation to get to the data?)
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Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 08:06 (UTC)~_^
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Date: Monday, 9 February 2004 08:42 (UTC)As for individual users... well, I'm sure you can find some pretty weird people on /random.bml.
But that's the same everywhere you've got thousands of users: there'll be weirdos.