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Why is Fast Company .com blocked?

huh, looks like it was a semi-broken filter that works now?

It used to display for me, but now it's all ****'s as well. Things are obviously being changed back there yet there's no explanation for it as of yet? What say you rulers of the AT URL filters?
 
wild guess: someone was spamming that site.
And the reason it shows up at first - takes a while for vBulletin to catch up?
 
I think the admins should be a little more transparent about things like this :hmm: Kind of like how they tried to sneak the detonate(?) links past us, not cool. But mostly I'm just curious.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
I think the admins should be a little more transparent about things like this :hmm: Kind of like how they tried to sneak the detonate(?) links past us, not cool. But mostly I'm just curious.
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Did they? I thought I saw the sticky for the referral links before I saw the referral links. Regardless, is it a big deal to insert a referral into links you post? It doesn't hurt your link. The only reason I could see that it would bother someone is if they are opposed to Anandtech making money off the forums.
 
MikeMike said:
This one hasnt changed... lets see...

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and honestly, i have no idea why they would spam the site, its a well respected publication...
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Agreed. I searched & seem to have found the answer. We have received a ton of spam from /blog at that domain. A well respected publication should not have spammers spamming out pharmaceuticals from their domain. The burden is on them to clean up their domain, not on us to remove spam after spam linking to their site.
 
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mugs said:
Did they? I thought I saw the sticky for the referral links before I saw the referral links. Regardless, is it a big deal to insert a referral into links you post? It doesn't hurt your link. The only reason I could see that it would bother someone is if they are opposed to Anandtech making money off the forums.
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It's not a big deal and I certainly am not opposed to AT making money (I'm one of the users who would be happy to see a return of user paid forums), I just think that transparency doesn't hurt. Just as a quick side note, when the referral links were first implemented (before the sticky thread, although not intentionally) they were causing some major problems with the forums and broke lots of links. They have been up and down intermittently since.
 
GodlessAstronomer said:
I don't remember making any accusations, I just said they should be more transparent.
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Now you are playing word games...here is what you said and YES it was an indirect accusation--

I think the admins should be a little more transparent about things like this Kind of like how they tried to sneak the detonate(?) links past us, not cool. But mostly I'm just curious.
Sounds like an accusation without naming individuals....
 
DrPizza said:
Agreed. I searched & seem to have found the answer. We have received a ton of spam from /blog at that domain. A well respected publication should not have spammers spamming out pharmaceuticals from their domain. The burden is on them to clean up their domain, not on us to remove spam after spam linking to their site.
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I believe they are trying to clean it up, but i dont know, i dont represent them at all, just know that their magazine is pretty well respected and they have some good articles overall that are posted on the blog...

kk.
 
arkcom said:
Those stickies didn't show up until a few days after the redirects.
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The sticky in Hot Deals (which is the forum most affected by this) went up the same day as the redirects. We were told 5/10/2009 that a redirect system was going to be implemented sometime before the shift to vB. The tech side went ahead and put it into action on 5/12/2009 without any further notice having been given to the mods. The sticky went up on 5/12 as soon as we saw that it was active.
 
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