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1tess on "jhaines6.wordpress.com is no longer available"

1tess — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:16:36 +0000

Jean needs to work through the problem of the blog suspension. You and her other friends cannot help. We forum volunteers cannot help. She needs to contact the TOS team herself. Please read the post from auxclass above:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/jhaines6wordpresscom-is-no-longer-available?replies=5#post-1223694

taube4 on "jhaines6.wordpress.com is no longer available"

taube4 — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:26:29 +0000

Jean’s blog disappeared and many of us have been looking into it. But she’s OK and will be back online as soon as technical support can deal with the matter.

--> http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/04/to-all-of-jean-haines-readers/

auxclass on "jhaines6.wordpress.com is no longer available"

auxclass — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 15:52:27 +0000

The only person that can deal with or find out the reason for a blog suspension is the blog owner - suspensions are never discussed in the forum and none of us that help in the forum can return a blog from suspension anyway - WordPress.COM however believes in freedom of speech - I have seen many very vile blogs here that were not suspended - there are some links you can review if you want

http://en.wordpress.com/tos/
http://wordpress.com/types-of-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/advertising/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/suspended-blogs/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/affiliate-links/

Abuse – Freedom of Speech:

http://en.wordpress.com/freedom-of-speech/
http://en.wordpress.com/abuse/
http://en.wordpress.com/complaints/

majestic12crypto on "jhaines6.wordpress.com is no longer available"

majestic12crypto — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:04:00 +0000

Can I do this if its not my blog?

danielisreading on "jhaines6.wordpress.com is no longer available"

danielisreading — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:49:10 +0000

If this blog has been suspended you need to use the contact form in your dashboard or here. Nobody here can help you with this, as this is a matter for you and the staff.

majestic12crypto on "jhaines6.wordpress.com is no longer available"

majestic12crypto — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:38:01 +0000

So I would like to know why this blog vanished....

http://jhaines6.wordpress.com

Thousands of other will too.

Sorry if i'm jumping to conclusions. But I smell spineless censorship going on.

bastikononion on "[REQUEST] Widget for Anticensorship project "Flashproxy"; Help censored people"

bastikononion — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:31:15 +0000

Dear wordpress.com developers,

I start with Tor, but it's about Flashproxy, a project replying on volunteer websites who put a badge on their pages. The badge is placed via an iframe and makes use of JavaScript and WebSockets.

This is why it requires your attention. It is not allowed to use iframes or JavaScript, for very good reason, but you may find it acceptable and could provide a widget that would allow wordpress.com blog owners to place the badge on their blogs.

It doesn't have to be a widget, you utilize shortcodes for embedding content, so you could do this here as well.

You may or may not know the anonymity project Tor [1] created by the Tor
Project. Tor (free open source software) aims to anonymize the location
of the traffic by routing it through three nodes/relays run by
volunteers. Anonymity was and still is the main goal. People with monitored
Internet (from China, Iran, Syria, and many others) use Tor as a circumvention tool to connect to destinations they couldn't reach due to censorship.

Censors prevent the entry to the Tor network by blocking all known
relays (which are all because they are public). Bridges [2] (unlisted
relays serving only as entry points) got deployed, but censors try to
find bridges and block them as well.

Censors can simply blacklist addresses they know, they can also
fingerprint on traffic and disrupt connections. The Tor Project
introduced Pluggable Transports [3] recently to plug something between
the Tor components to modify traffic.

One project utilizing Pluggable Transports, in a different way, is called Flashproxy. [4]

Fast and short-living. Its initial implementation used Adobe Flash, but
the new development makes use of JavaScript and Websockets. It aims to
provide access to the Tor network by turning web browsers into proxies.
The pool of addresses available should be large, at least large and
unstable enough so censors couldn't enumerate them all.

It works by people who visit a website, or multiple, containing a badge. The proxy connects to the facilitator and asks for clients to
serve. The proxy may get IP addresses it connects to to transport
(encrypted after the handshake) traffic between a client and a relay.
You can see how it works in detail [5].

Here's explain how to put in on a page. [6]

Currently the badge works opt-out by default, that may change.

It is an iframe pointing to stanford.edu and website owners have the choice to select if their visitors should be proxies by default or not.

The first variant makes a visitor (his/her browser) a proxy, unless there's a cookie that opts-out.

The second (recently added) variant does not relay traffic by default, a visitor has to visit the options page [7] (can be opened by clicking on the badge) and choose “Yes” or “No”.

It does not work if the embedding page uses https due to restrictions of
the proxies, but the won't produce a warning.

Questions you might have:

Q: Does a censored user have to see the badge?
A: No the censored user makes use of the proxies provided by visitors.

Q: Does this use bandwidth from the wordpress.com servers?
A: No, your servers won't use more bandwidth.

Q: How long is the (flash) proxy active?
A: The proxy is active as long as a visitor is on the page with the badge on it. When he/she closes the page the proxy is gone.

Q: What traffic will be transported?
A: The proxy itself connects unencrypted (due to it's design). The Tor
components on each users and the bridge/relay end encrypt the traffic.
It's expected to be websites, but the visitor can't see it.

Q: To what domains does the badge connect?
A: Currently to crypto.standford.edu (host of the badge) and bamsoftware.com (host of the facilitator)

Q: Does the flash proxy request content from the Internet on behalf of the client?
A: No the proxy is just an intermediary between the client and the relay.

As you are aware of the security implications by embedding
third-party domain content I ask you to consider them and think about enabling blog owners to put a badge on their blogs.

In the same breath I'd like to ask you to put the badge on wordpress.com pages to contribute to the project, if you like it.

You can read about how the badge, facilitator, client and server side work. [8] Should you be interested in reading source code [9].

If you got any questions just go ahead.

The project maintainer is David Fifield, to whom I'll point for detailed
answers on the design.

Please note that the PDF (research paper) is a bit outdated since their
initial implementation used Flash, which is not used anymore.

This way I'm just contributing to the project, while I'm not directly involved in it.

Thank you in advance for your time and your considerations.

Best Regards!

p.s. this is tracked by ticket [#7061]

[1] https://www.torproject.org
[2] https://www.torproject.org//docs/bridges.html.en
[3] https://www.torproject.org//docs/pluggable-transports.html.en
[4] http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/
[5] http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/#how-it-works
[6] http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/#badge-howto
[7] http://crypto.stanford.edu/flashproxy/options.html
[8] https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git/blob/HEAD:/doc/design.txt
[9] https://gitweb.torproject.org/flashproxy.git/tree
[#7601] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7061

timethief on "What is the definition of "offensive language""

timethief — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 22:39:55 +0000

If you want to get into a prolonged discussion with Staff about what kind of language would be likely to offend your grandmother and/or would not be appropriately used before a young child then this is the link straight to the Terms of Service group (works all the time)
http://en.wordpress.com/report-mature/?url=name-of-blog.wordpress.com

mcstclair on "What is the definition of "offensive language""

mcstclair — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 18:55:43 +0000

I just had a glance at the Mature Content policy. It refers to "offensive language" as being grounds for adult classification. Okay, fair enough, but what is offensive language? For example, my blog is not what I would consider an adult blog, but (a) I will probably from time to time discuss sexual matters, not for entertainment but as, you know, issues in society and in our lives; and (b) I will certainly want to use strong language now and then in reference to outrageous things and people in the world. E.g., I might want to say that some new restriction on civil liberties is "f--ing incredible," or that some Fortune 500 CEO is an "a-----". Not a lot, because I'm all about quality writing. But occasionally, when I feel the situation really calls for it. So how much do I need to restrain myself? I'd really like my writing to be available to a general audience.

jessielansdel on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

jessielansdel — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 21:43:16 +0000

Honestly! Why do people think that being 'Freshly Pressed' is the ultimate goal. Just enjoy blogging and aim to make your blog the best that you can. That will be much more satisfying in the long term. 😉

raincoaster on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

raincoaster — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 20:03:27 +0000

If you are going to be jealous of people singled out of a crowd of 35 million for an arbitrary list then you either need to pander to the tastes of those editors by writing in English about cupcakes or you are going to have to get over it.

auxclass on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

auxclass — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:17:53 +0000

Mr. Just some writer - visit @timethief's site (she helps in the forum regular like) and you will find a ton of advice on how to get more traffic to your blog - the support documents also have a couple of articles on building traffic - way better I think than Freshly Pressed - while Pressed will give you a lot of traffic for one or two days - you want to build regular subscribers that will show up each time you make a new Post and that will also recommend your blog to people they know

thegiddygoat on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

thegiddygoat — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:59:06 +0000

Freshly Pressed will not make you popular. Good content will do that. If your only aim is for Freshly Pressed than you shouldn't be blogging. Freshly Pressed was designed to make people feel good, to make them feel important, that is all. It's just a random selection, there is nothing 'great' about it.

notawoodpecker on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

notawoodpecker — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:39:02 +0000

Sorry, but there is nothing more important than cake!!

nnsavov on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

nnsavov — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:37:22 +0000

I am just a regular guy, who is trying to make a difference and try to show something to the people. I see some stupid articles about cakes and stuff and I am pissed off when more important stuff are just ignored. So why am I obsessed with Freshly Pressed? Because I want people to know more than they do! Because they don't know shit in these important times and there are a lot of people, who are writing pretty important stuff, that we should all read. I'm just some writer, but I feel that from time to time I write about stuff that people should know, more important than cakes of visits to the mountains and stuff!

thegiddygoat on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

thegiddygoat — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:29:27 +0000

Why is everyone obssesed with getting on Freshly Pressed? There is no censorship. They are thousands and thousands of blogs on WP and Freshly Pressed is a random selection. Perhaps you should concentrate on blogging rather than just aiming for a Freshly Pressed, you may even stand a chance of getting noticed then.

notawoodpecker on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

notawoodpecker — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:29:22 +0000

Read this:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/freshly-pressed/

They only select 19 out of however many thousands that are out there. Your chances are extremely slim no matter what you post..

nnsavov on "Why am I all the time ignored ?"

nnsavov — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:22:28 +0000

I'm writing in the Bulgarian version of WordPress and I feel I am all the time ignored and can never make it to the Freshly pressed. I am trying my best, with pictures, links, giving credit to people when the information is not mine and everything, but all the time I am ignored. Who should I address about that, because I am not sure if this is censorship or what? Is there censorship in WordPress? Shouldn't be.

ruralnigeria on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

ruralnigeria — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:15:52 +0000

Bottom line - if you want something to be private don't put it on the internet and if you do have a Private members only blog - which defeats your want to speak out

thanks a ton. makes sense. whew, this internet is a crazy place

auxclass on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

auxclass — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:13:50 +0000

Keep in mind that Google is not the only search engine and not all search engines are well behaved - the reality of the internet is that it is open - so just because Google will drop your site from their cache not all search engines will -

Bottom line - if you want something to be private don't put it on the internet and if you do have a Private members only blog - which defeats your want to speak out

ruralnigeria on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

ruralnigeria — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:06:31 +0000

The site linked to your name is empty - but on what ever your REAL site is you can put a link to work or wherever - so people that do come to your site because of a search engine have a link to get more info or something

i don't want to link my job to my blog. I want to speak openly about my work and experience...i do NOT want google to display my blog in a search..

auxclass on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

auxclass — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 17:00:11 +0000

timethief on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

timethief — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:58:24 +0000

It means that whatever they have indexed from your site will not be removed from the search reults for at least 3 - 6 months and in some cases it may not be removed at all.

ruralnigeria on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

ruralnigeria — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:57:01 +0000

thank you! what does it mean "flushes their caches"...?

timethief on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

timethief — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:43:59 +0000

Yes. See 3. here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Also note that Google only flushes their caches every 3 - 6 months so the indexed content is not going to disappear quickly from search results.

ruralnigeria on "Privacy controls: work sensitive information/google search disable?"

ruralnigeria — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 16:41:27 +0000

I recently got in some trouble with my workplace because my blog came up #1 for several of our keyword relevant searches. I looked into password protected blogs but most of them required people to register, which I know realistically will reduce ease of accessibility and readership. I would love if I could make it so only people with the URL can access my blog...is this possible? Much appreciated!

macmanx on "Tgas/Topics: Gay, Lesbian removed by wordpress? Anti-gay censorship?"

macmanx — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:55:26 +0000

Yes, please try updating the posts. That should kick it back in action, though it may take a while for them to finally appear after the update.

thesacredpath on "Tgas/Topics: Gay, Lesbian removed by wordpress? Anti-gay censorship?"

thesacredpath — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:58:06 +0000

Actually one other thing to try. Set the post to draft and update and then "publish" it again.

thesacredpath on "Tgas/Topics: Gay, Lesbian removed by wordpress? Anti-gay censorship?"

thesacredpath — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:57:04 +0000

@pinagendist, open the posts that are not showing in the pages, make one minor change such as adding a space and then deleting it, make sure you have 10 or less tags and then update the post and see if they will then show up. Again, it might take up to 10 or 15 minutes.

pinkagendist on "Tgas/Topics: Gay, Lesbian removed by wordpress? Anti-gay censorship?"

pinkagendist — Mon, 07 May 2012 19:05:25 +0000

Hi,
I just checked, my posts are still not appearing in the reader...