Hey All,
I've spent a chunk of time today playing around with the forum's code to try and wire in a new security feature. Some of you may have encountered an error page during this time. If so, my bad.
The end result is that all links on the forum now go through an anonymizer. That means if you click my link http://www.google.com, you'll first be passed through another website that erases referral information (meaning the target website can't see you've come from cwckiforums.com) This is a pretty common thing now in some communities, but after the Love-Shy people found our thread about them, I figured now would be as good a time as any to get the code working.
Champthom's reason for deleting the Lolcow Forum to a few days ago was centered around a concern that the people of this forum would end up on the target side of hostility, and there's truth to that. A lot of people find this website because of a sadistic obsession with Chris. I've written a sort of Moderation Manifesto I'll pass around soon to the team to help combat this problem before anything even happens. The idea is this:
Although the mods already have good "sperg sense", I want to ban people that make themselves easy prey or whom are obviously evil and sadistic that the rest of us probably don't want to be around.
And just to make this clear: nothing's happened. The love-shies have prodded the forum a bit to see who's browsing their forum and making laughingstocks out of them. Nobody has gotten hurt, but for good measure I'm going take some preemptive steps in case anyone does join the forum that happens to be completely insane.
I've spent a chunk of time today playing around with the forum's code to try and wire in a new security feature. Some of you may have encountered an error page during this time. If so, my bad.
The end result is that all links on the forum now go through an anonymizer. That means if you click my link http://www.google.com, you'll first be passed through another website that erases referral information (meaning the target website can't see you've come from cwckiforums.com) This is a pretty common thing now in some communities, but after the Love-Shy people found our thread about them, I figured now would be as good a time as any to get the code working.
Champthom's reason for deleting the Lolcow Forum to a few days ago was centered around a concern that the people of this forum would end up on the target side of hostility, and there's truth to that. A lot of people find this website because of a sadistic obsession with Chris. I've written a sort of Moderation Manifesto I'll pass around soon to the team to help combat this problem before anything even happens. The idea is this:
- Don't post identifying information about yourself, even in General.
- Don't have a username that can easily lead to your Dox. If searching your name in Google leads to every account you've made online in the last 10 years, PM me.
- Don't make yourself a victim. Don't say anything that would hurt if it was brought up a year later.
Although the mods already have good "sperg sense", I want to ban people that make themselves easy prey or whom are obviously evil and sadistic that the rest of us probably don't want to be around.
And just to make this clear: nothing's happened. The love-shies have prodded the forum a bit to see who's browsing their forum and making laughingstocks out of them. Nobody has gotten hurt, but for good measure I'm going take some preemptive steps in case anyone does join the forum that happens to be completely insane.
