Why can we not discuss other forums on this forum

[Gqt2015]

The censorship here is insane. Almost worse than the “sponsor” forums

 

[EnhancedGrappler]

The censorship here is insane. Almost worse than the “sponsor” forums

Can you explain why you think you cannot discuss other forums? Please indicate any and all censorship you perceive to be occurring and I will address it in earnest.

 

[DashPCT]

Can you explain why you think you cannot discuss other forums? Please indicate any and all censorship you perceive to be occurring and I will address it in earnest.

why do you get a showcase of awards under your name and we dont?

RIOT

 

[EnhancedGrappler]

why do you get a showcase of awards under your name and we dont?

RIOT

I added it with hopes to eventually have a custom counter for bloodwork verifications and 3rd party lab testing of Sources, so that we could show if @DashPCT had been independently tested by a third party like Janoshik, say 10x, giving you a pretty little badge. Haven't quite ironed it out yet but in the meantime you get to see my stock trophy images.

 

[jackmeoff2]

Can you explain why you think you cannot discuss other forums? Please indicate any and all censorship you perceive to be occurring and I will address it in earnest.

The meso rx thread, one below this one can’t be accessed. Perhaps that’s what he is talking about

 

[EnhancedGrappler]

The censorship here is insane. Almost worse than the “sponsor” forums

I see now what @Gqt2015 is referring to. Yesterday he registered an account called @Grapeist and opened this thread:

Mesorx down for anyone else?

?

steroidsourcetalk.cc

You may notice that you cannot open this thread and run into a 403 Forbidden error. @Liska was kind enough to ping me to let me know he was unable to see this thread, and when I tried, I found I wasn't able to open it either. Bit odd as the Admin. He helped brainstorm a few ideas, perhaps that the thread was auto-filtered due to the username "Grapeist", but that didn't seem right as we don't have forum-specific filters on any terms that I know of. I even tried renaming his forum account briefly to see if that removed any filter but to no avail. I have never seen this particular type of error.

When looking into the account I noticed that @Gqt2015 had opened @Grapeist using a random string of characters as the email address, while connecting via a VPN. I considered that this was maybe the reason it was filtered but again, this 403 type of filtering is very specific, usually we would expect to have an "unapproved" thread to approve, though we don't have that function enabled at this time. After further research I've seen it suggested that this is host-specific and that I might find it blocked at the host-level rather than at the XenForo level. It is possible that this thread set off the "SQL Injection defense" that is built into our hosting platform by default. I am investigating that now to see if that's the case.

All this to say, @Gqt2015 , you are mistaken. You are not being censored, or at least not deliberately so. The content of your post is not being hidden, as you can plainly tell by the fact that the thread is visibly listed in our Off-Topic forum, it's simply not accessible to open (a weird problem, I admit). Were the moderators censoring or hiding any posts, you'd not see it at all. If I didn't want it on the forum it would be deleted, not left up for all of us to scratch our heads at.

In any case, you may use this thread to freely discuss the MesoRX connectivity issues! There is no prohibition whatsoever against conversing about other forums, especially ones with mutual interests with regards to harm reduction and free discussion of public sources. As long as you are respectful, of course.

 

[EnhancedGrappler]

The censorship here is insane. Almost worse than the “sponsor” forums

In a hopefully final update, we now can confirm your post was auto-filtered by a mod_security rule that blocked the URL. This happened because the sole content of your post was a "?". It's an automatic function by a default setting. We've removed this setting. You should be able to see your thread now, without a 403:Forbidden error.

Hope that clears up any concerns about censorship you may have had!

 

[libertylabs]

In a hopefully final update, we now can confirm your post was auto-filtered by a mod_security rule that blocked the URL. This happened because the sole content of your post was a "?". It's an automatic function by a default setting. We've removed this setting. You should be able to see your thread now, without a 403:Forbidden error.

Hope that clears up any concerns about censorship you may have had!

Could an Admin contact me via pm please.
Thank you.

 

[EnhancedGrappler]

Could an Admin contact me via pm please.
Thank you.

Done, but I hope you know you can always reach us via the modmail