All links should be blocked IMHO. If you have something to say (in 280 characters) say it. If you have more to say, I'll find it on your blog.
How will you show me where your blog is?
It's in your bio
Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
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Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
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#113How many people are actually linking to valid JSFiddle links from Twitter? This might have just been a math decision (X% malware > x% good links).
I have my own problems with Twitter, but a social media site with a LOT of non-technical users blocking access to a site specifically designed to run anonymous code in their browser doesn't make me want to break out my pitchfork ...
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand how someone could be tech-savvy enough to know about ETH and actually own some, while at the same time falling for such scams.
I would wager most of the people dealing in crypto currencies are actually precisely the kind of people that would fall for pretty much anything. I don't think it's a stretch to say that the fact that they deal in crypto currencies is actually a pretty good indication that they would.
"Dunning-Krugerrands"
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand how posting a "wallet code" is dangerous. Is it mining coins while you are browsing the code? Then it just a minor annoyance. Also, browsers should block cryptominers when they are in the background tab.
I don’t think it’s mining code, I think it’s wallet addresses posted by scammers. Here’s an example of the scam I think this is intended to curb: https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-staticfiles-25g9k/elon_...
holy shit Jita scammers have come out into the real world now.
"send me 1,000 isk and i'll send you 2,000 isk back!"
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#117At what point is the tech community going to abandon twitter? From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda. I see very little social utility for using the network, especially when compared to the damage it is causing through the spread of misinformation and outright lies.
> From my perspective it is just bots, "influencers", and propaganda. That's completely up to you; you need to create your own bubble (for better or worse). What I find bad is that there's no "circles" concept (both incoming and outgoing). While the "incoming" part is not a problem for me, the "outgoing" part is (example: posting slightly conservative views will cause tech snowflakes among your followers to be upset;…
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Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#118What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like "Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link" should work ju…
There's a UX problem with this:
You're making the user answer a question they (generally) don't know the answer to and don't want to answer anyway.
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#119It’s due to crypto scammers using it. From the founder’s post: At some point in the past crypto scammers used JSFiddle to host pages with a wallet code and posted links to that on Twitter. Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these. I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam…
So: the amount of people who own crypto and lose it in a free-money-just-give-me-money-first scam > legit developers who want to share code.
Why is twitter bending over backwards to protect the former crowd?
Re: Twitter is rejecting posts containing JSFiddle URLs
#120What I find strange how this is presented as an either-or option between banning and not banning. You can also have an intermediate warning page. YouTube does this to any third-party website for example. Something like "Warning: JSFiddle has been abused by spammers to run crypto mining scripts. We recommend that you that you do not continue to this JSFiddle page unless you trust the source of the link" should work ju…
There's a UX problem with this: You're making the user answer a question they (generally) don't know the answer to and don't want to answer anyway.
I do agree that there is a UX problem and that it matters a lot how this is presented, bu I'm not sure if I agree that it's a real problem here. The question is basically "do you know if you can trust this source?", which means it should "round down" to no.