11-27-2018, 02:38 PM
@rudra You know how much I like you and I'll stand behind you in every issue you take up, but in this case I disagree. Perhaps you could have made the presentation of the URL as a non-URL presentation so it wouldn't be a link. Like you inadvertently and without bad intent became guilty of phishing.
You can't imagine how challenging it has become for Forum owners and shared web hosts to not get blacklisted for phishing that has nothing to do with them. These days there are so many automatic bots that go the rounds for triggering phishing complaints, that before you know it your IP is blacklisted and you have to go through lots of trouble to get it unlisted. You should really click around Spamhaus just to get an idea. I speak from experience at Gigarocket. Compared to when it was Stonerocket in 2005 when it first started to now, the owner and our technical admin have become vigorously protective of our IP to the extent of creating all kinds of screens and filters and scripts to ensure there are no phishing incidents or if they are detected to immediately contain them. They are also super strict with no second chance when the phishing incident has been discovered. Person gets an instant ban without any warning.
Now of course if you were Rudra and you were a member at Gigarocket with the same high regard that I hold you at post4vps, I'd have just removed the link from your post and given you the above detailed explanation in a PM - I'd have gone a million miles so you wouldn't be publicly embarrassed, as I'd have regarded you as a valuable asset of the Forum - which you indeed are. Not sure whether I'd have been able to protect you if the "test phishing" URL would have been discovered on a Website of yours that is in a Gigarocket hosting account - as the hosting account would have received an immediate suspension as a result of a screen filter. However, if your hosting account would have been suspended, I'd have pleaded your case to get it unsuspended and I think the owner would have been sympathetic - but urging you to use caution in future. I'd hope that if this happened to you here at post4vps.com that @Dynamo will show you the same courtesy.
You can't imagine how challenging it has become for Forum owners and shared web hosts to not get blacklisted for phishing that has nothing to do with them. These days there are so many automatic bots that go the rounds for triggering phishing complaints, that before you know it your IP is blacklisted and you have to go through lots of trouble to get it unlisted. You should really click around Spamhaus just to get an idea. I speak from experience at Gigarocket. Compared to when it was Stonerocket in 2005 when it first started to now, the owner and our technical admin have become vigorously protective of our IP to the extent of creating all kinds of screens and filters and scripts to ensure there are no phishing incidents or if they are detected to immediately contain them. They are also super strict with no second chance when the phishing incident has been discovered. Person gets an instant ban without any warning.
Now of course if you were Rudra and you were a member at Gigarocket with the same high regard that I hold you at post4vps, I'd have just removed the link from your post and given you the above detailed explanation in a PM - I'd have gone a million miles so you wouldn't be publicly embarrassed, as I'd have regarded you as a valuable asset of the Forum - which you indeed are. Not sure whether I'd have been able to protect you if the "test phishing" URL would have been discovered on a Website of yours that is in a Gigarocket hosting account - as the hosting account would have received an immediate suspension as a result of a screen filter. However, if your hosting account would have been suspended, I'd have pleaded your case to get it unsuspended and I think the owner would have been sympathetic - but urging you to use caution in future. I'd hope that if this happened to you here at post4vps.com that @Dynamo will show you the same courtesy.