Make it so I can get on at work.....please.

[RetroHacker]

Hehe. I remember when I was in high school, there was a ton of stuff blocked. I just SSH'ed into one of my boxes at home and used remote X sessions to run Netscape. Those that didn't understand the concept of X were confused as to how I had this magical window on my screen that could go to all those "blocked" sites...

-Ian

 

[mclemore]

That is not completely true, the moderators can't fix it but the owner can. The website owner can classify the website as something that will get past most filters. For instance, KLOV used to be classified as 'medical information' when it was linked directly with the Lymphoma forums. At that time virtually no one was restricted from KLOV with the generic filtering software utilized by most companies. When it shifted to the new software it became classified as 'games and gaming'. That is when I, and many others became blocked.

At the present time I can access the KLOV forums but not the IAM/KLOV main site. Some of the links are broken, many of the linked pictures don't show up, and occasionally even the forums are blocked but it is still much better than what I had for the first few months of the new software.


Oddly, on occasion an individual thread will be blocked under the classification of 'games and gaming' but this is rare and almost always a fluff thread anyway...

The 'site owner' has close to nothing much to do with how the classification databases that individual site owners classify sites. On a big one, I did at one time request it be typed as 'historical', which would have been allowed by most systems. The challenge is that the domain name includes 'arcade', which while having some SEO and other benefits, is unfortunately taken by many of the databases to mean videogames (as in games you can play on the web). We'll not providing games you can play here, but that doesn't prevent us from getting lumped in with them.

There is a 'fix' I can do to make the main site accessible for people, but unfortunately it won't work easily on the forums due to the design of vbulletin. I'll keep looking into it.

 

[Pinball Wizard]

LOL, I get to the forums at school through forums.klov.net.

 

[lowblow]

LOL, I get to the forums at school through forums.klov.net.

Try this. I am blocked from klov.com at work as well, but .net works just fine.