Timeline for Help users create dummy links that are not to unrelated commercial sites
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| Dec 30, 2022 at 13:45 | comment | added | mplungjan |
This JSON is blocked from use since it contains the actual abc.com: https://api.tvmaze.com/search/shows?q=friends
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 1:38 | comment | added | MrWhite |
@SonictheMaskedWerehog You can still reference domain.com and www.domain.com - it only seems to trip the sensor when entering a full/absolute URL with "http(s)" protocol eg. http://domain.com etc. - so you can't link to it.
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| Oct 16, 2020 at 1:26 | comment | added | MrWhite | "this blacklist is now live on all sites EXCEPT for meta.stackexchange.com" - Not sure if this has recently changed, but this "blacklist" does not appear to be on "all sites"? Or even all "programming" sites where example domains are often used!? A few main sites where I think this should be added, but currently does not appear to, include: "Software Engineering", "Ask Ubuntu", "Code Review" and "Joomla". (?) | |
| Sep 17, 2019 at 0:01 | comment | added | Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog | Domain.com is a valid domain hosting company; if I want to recommend it to someone, how can I? | |
| Sep 16, 2019 at 23:47 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2017 at 2:05 | comment | added | iBug says Reinstate Monica | I think any repetition of a single letter should be blocked. Especially X. | |
| Jul 17, 2017 at 19:35 | comment | added | Stevoisiak |
...I just came uncomfortably close to clicking xxx.com while at work
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 0:54 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | That's a good idea, @Donald. Done. | |
| Feb 28, 2017 at 15:57 | comment | added | Donald Duck | I think domain.com should also be blacklisted. | |
| Jan 11, 2015 at 14:42 | comment | added | Braiam | It allowed me. Lets see comments site.com. If you can read it.... | |
| Jan 11, 2015 at 14:37 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Try it now, @braiam | |
| Jan 11, 2015 at 7:19 | comment | added | Braiam | Trying to edit Why are certain example URLs like http://site.*/ and http://mysite.*/ blocked from post content? makes the alert appear (I couldn't post this comment either). Isn't this disabled in MSE? | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | if they drop the http:// part, then it won't be automatically converted to a link, @Michael - which was the problem we set out to solve here. I should take https links into account though - done. | |
| Jan 10, 2015 at 18:32 | comment | added | Michael Hampton |
Can we just drop the http:// part of this? I commonly see people trying to get around this restriction by dropping http:// and using only the domain, rather than using example.com.
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 19:25 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 9, 2015 at 17:47 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Doesn't look like it, @tepples. The network site - abc.go.com - isn't blacklisted. | |
| Jan 9, 2015 at 15:07 | comment | added | Damian Yerrick | Not letting users cite ABC.com is likely to hurt on Movies & TV. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 10:13 | comment | added | Clive | @Shog9 Any chance we can get it on Drupal Answers too? meta.drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/3048/… | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 19:32 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Done. @Michael. If you need the pattern extended, post a request on meta.sf | |
| Jul 23, 2014 at 19:11 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | Please bring this to SF. And soon. | |
| May 6, 2014 at 3:46 | history | edited | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 26, 2014 at 12:58 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | @Shog9, please have a look at meta.stackexchange.com/questions/226793/… and let us know what your views are | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 4:22 | comment | added | Undo | @jdp Yeah, that's much better. I would strongly suggest, though, editing something else in the post to be better - many will reject otherwise. | |
| Mar 26, 2014 at 4:21 | comment | added | jdphenix |
@Undo I decided to go ahead and focus the edits on hunting down instances of xxx.com I see
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| Mar 20, 2014 at 5:05 | comment | added | Undo | We currently have someone going on a suggested edit spree trying to change all the "site.com"s to "example.com"s. Should we approve them? | |
| Mar 20, 2014 at 2:40 | comment | added | steve cook | Unfortunately without some specific text that says "use example.com" this solution is just confusing. It just tells you that you cant add http in your answer. It look several attempts and a post on meta before I found this info. | |
| Dec 10, 2013 at 9:02 | comment | added | Mołot | Is it implemented on Drupal Answers? And what about using it in code blocks? | |
| Nov 18, 2013 at 11:27 | comment | added | Mołot | Thank you, gentleman. @Sklivvz I think pretty good explanation of example.com is directly on example.com ;) Simple, direct, and surely comes from authorized source. But link to Wikipedia might work, too. Depends of the detail level you want to give your users. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 11:36 | vote | accept | Mołot | ||
| Nov 13, 2013 at 2:09 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | I figured we'd mention it the first time someone asked about the error here on meta, @Sklivvz. If we can get a hook for a help-link into the blacklist though, it'd be worth writing up something for that. | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 2:00 | comment | added | Sklivvz Mod | There is a domain which is chosen as a standard example name... example.com (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Example.com). Maybe we could mention it in a help page? | |
| Nov 13, 2013 at 1:00 | history | answered | Shog9Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |