Just now, I was trying to make this comment in bigpuppy's profile:

I realized that mid-sentence, hence the dash. Also, see tinyurl.com/j7xadxm
and tinyurl.com/jdo83r9
to understand what I mean. I'm thinking of adding something like “Add ‘Hi; I noticed that you…’ to the beginning of each of your posts to instantly make them 50% more considerate!” (as a joke) to my forum signature, but after I added Donald Trump/Minot, North Dakota parodies to it, my signature is already longer than there is room for. By the way, it's horrible what's happening there (in Minot).

As you can see, it's somewhat long. In fact, it's exactly 500 characters, so I couldn't have made it any longer. I had to use TinyUrls to keep my response in one comment. And yet when I hit, “Post,” I received the all-too-familiar-for-Scratchers-who-attempt-to-use-TinyUrls-to-make-their-comments-shorter message:

Uh oh! This comment contains a link to a website with unmoderated chat. For safety reasons, please do not link to these sites!

even though each TinyUrl refers to a forum post on Scratch, and if I made a post with the non-TinyUrl links, I would have been able to get past that filter (but not post it because I wouldn't have been able to get past the character limit), even though the two links went to the exact same pages.


Scratch Team, I'm not asking that you let us post TinyUrls to sites that if we had included the direct URL, we wouldn't be allowed to comment, but if the TinyUrl redirects to a site that is okay to link to on Scratch, please don't block it from being posted!

I'm not sure if Scratch can tell where it links to - I could be wrong though.

bigpuppy wrote:

I'm not sure if Scratch can tell where it links to - I could be wrong though.

How hard can it be?

bigpuppy wrote:

I'm not sure if Scratch can tell where it links to - I could be wrong though.

Well, I just made a request to one of the tinyurls from the comment in the OP; and the responses url was from Scratch so that means there is a way to do it.


Sigton

no support, i dont trust link shorteners in general

scrooge100 wrote:

no support, i dont trust link shorteners in general

Why are you judging shortened links by the link shortener instead of the page that it links to? That's like judging a book by its cover!

dvargasews wrote:

Why are you judging shortened links by the link shortener instead of the page that it links to? That's like judging a book by its cover!

Yeah, but what if the book contains something dangerous. I personally don't trust link shorteners either.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

Why are you judging shortened links by the link shortener instead of the page that it links to? That's like judging a book by its cover!

Yeah, but what if the book contains something dangerous. I personally don't trust link shorteners either.

Sigton

The website would check to make sure that it isn't dangerous. It would allow the TinyUrl IF AND ONLY IF the website that it linked to was okay.

dvargasews wrote:

The website would check to make sure that it isn't dangerous. It would allow the TinyUrl IF AND ONLY IF the website that it linked to was okay.

How does it know a website is ‘okay’?

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

The website would check to make sure that it isn't dangerous. It would allow the TinyUrl IF AND ONLY IF the website that it linked to was okay.

How does it know a website is ‘okay’?

Sigton

It would use the same method that it always uses.

You can just use a different URL shortener, like bit.ly or goo.gl. Besides, running out of space in your comment because the link is too long isn't much of a problem, anyway.

dvargasews wrote:

It would use the same method that it always uses.

What do you mean “always uses”?

alexphan wrote:

You can just use a different URL shortener, like bit.ly or goo.gl. Besides, running out of space in your comment because the link is too long isn't much of a problem, anyway.

Yes, you can make as many comments as you like.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

It would use the same method that it always uses.

What do you mean “always uses”?

alexphan wrote:

You can just use a different URL shortener, like bit.ly or goo.gl. Besides, running out of space in your comment because the link is too long isn't much of a problem, anyway.

Yes, you can make as many comments as you like.

Sigton

It would judge it purely on what the non-shortened link is.

dvargasews wrote:

It would judge it purely on what the non-shortened link is.

Based on what criteria?

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

It would judge it purely on what the non-shortened link is.

Based on what criteria?

Sigton

The criteria that it would use otherwise.

dvargasews wrote:

The criteria that it would use otherwise.

Which is?

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

The criteria that it would use otherwise.

Why is?

Sigton

Because the only thing that should matter about links is the page that they lead to.

dvargasews wrote:

Because the only thing that should matter about links is the page that they lead to.

I meant to say which is.

Sigton

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

Because the only thing that should matter about links is the page that they lead to.

I meant to say which is.

Sigton

No posting links to inappropriate sites.
No posting links to sites with unmoderated chat.
No posting links to sites that contain malware.
Please ask the Scratch Team for the full list.

dvargasews wrote:

Sigton wrote:

dvargasews wrote:

Because the only thing that should matter about links is the page that they lead to.

I meant to say which is.

Sigton

No posting links to inappropriate sites.
No posting links to sites with unmoderated chat.
No posting links to sites that contain malware.
Please ask the Scratch Team for the full list.

Define ‘inappropriate’, and how would it be known if there is unmoderated chat or malware?

Sigton