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Thread: R.I.P. TV Tropes
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2008-11-03, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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R.I.P. TV Tropes
I hope >70% of you think I'm talking about TV Tropes leaving the interblag.
Anyway, can anyone explain to me why http://tvtropes.org is blocked at work for "Sex?" It wasn't blocked until recently, and it distrubs that of all reasons to block it, it was blocked for sex.
Reason:
The Websense category "Sex" is filtered.
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http://tvtropes.org/
Wut?
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2008-11-03, 05:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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They got pretty heavy with their Sex Tropes, to be honest. It probably doesn't help that they now have Porn Tropes there too.
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2008-11-03, 05:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Curse the prohibition on curse words! The best retort writes itself. *sigh* Now it's going to rattle around souring my consciousness until I can unload it on some unsuspecting fool.
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Trust me, it's for the best.
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2008-11-03, 05:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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To be honest, a short TV Tropes session can evolve into a missed day faster than a short Wikipedia session. If you want to keep your job this is probably good.
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2008-11-03, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-03, 07:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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My workplace has blocked this too. So much for stealing plot hooks for my D&D campaign over lunch.
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2008-11-03, 09:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: R.I.P. TV Tropes
I <3/TVTropes for that reason.
WebSense is finnicky sometimes. 'Sex' makes sense at least, even if it is being a little overzealous. What I want to know is what it means when I look up a cryptography website and it says "The WebSense category 'Dayton' is filtered."
What the heck is Dayton?! Is the town or university in Ohio really that salacious?
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2008-11-03, 09:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Haruki-kun; 2008-11-03 at 09:37 AM.
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2008-11-03, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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A wild DLD appears!
Anyway, its been a while since I looked at that awesome site, but I do remember some rather questionable pages.
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2008-11-03, 09:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-03, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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I was wondering why Websense got it for "sex"
Now what will I do to be unproductive at work? At least Tvtropes had a font and format that made it look like a business-related site that I could hide more easily.
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2008-11-03, 10:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Bear in mind that sometimes the filter has really stupid reasons for blocking things. I once had a filter block a site for "pornography". Trust me, there was none. They just want to catch it any putting something like that there provides grounds for them to question what you were doing there in the first place.
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2008-11-03, 10:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Goldarnit, did you have me scared!
Unfortunately, I really don't know how that filter works, so I can't add much useful info.The Future just ain’t what it used to be.
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2008-11-03, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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This should help you get around it
That is, unless they have proxies filtered.
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2008-11-03, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-03, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Never, EVER, start a thread called "R.I.P. TV Tropes" again! :P
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2008-11-03, 11:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-03, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2008-11-03, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Some filters block out Sports Illustrated's website because of the swimsuit issue links. That just means one has to go to espn.com for sports surfing.
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2008-11-03, 12:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Since quite a while ago, apparently. It's a catagory in and of itself...
... quit looking at me like that; links go to odd places in that site.
Also, SHAME on you for making the title say R.I.P. TV Tropes. You made me thank that' quabandiblaman had showed up again. Don't ever scare me like that again!Awesome Avatar by Shattersnap.
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2008-11-03, 03:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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I didn't really say it was recommended, just that it could be done. Besides, like he said, without Internet, he'd just play his PSP anyways.
Didn't know, our high school didn't, which is how everyone got on MySpace, which had been blocked.
I just found out that the german google video was unblocked despite the english variant being so, and used that.
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2008-11-03, 03:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oddly, despite its massive web blocking, my high school never blocked TV Tropes...and this college doesn't appear to have any content filtering at all. Still, it's agreed that it wastes a LOT of time...I'm reading it right now, too, actually.
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2008-11-03, 03:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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TV tropes was blocked in my class due to "excessive time-wasting potential."
The guy who runs the web filter in my class is really cruel...Sorry, forumites, but the clever message is in another signature!
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2008-11-03, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wouldn't filtering on a college campus (at least in dorms) be sort of against the spirit of college? Or is it just liberal arts colleges...I have heard of schools that limit bandwidth usage, but that's understandable to keep the tubes from clogging up.
Unfortunately, I never got into hacking so I can't help you out but I do know a few people...one nearly got expelled a number of times but they could never prove anything because he was too careful and kept all his stuff on flash drives.
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2008-11-03, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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