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I think any new sites should be blocked by default, and once they're listed at opendns (inside their database), they can be categorized and voted on.
This way, if someone starts a porn site and spams a million people, it will be blocked and whoever is using open dns servers won't have access to that site until open dns properly categorizes the site.
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This way, if someone starts a porn site and spams a million people, it will be blocked and whoever is using open dns servers won't have access to that site until open dns properly categorizes the site.
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Allow blocking of sites not listed is even a bad idea because just about every site would be blocked. This is just a bad idea.
written by mysteryfcm 610 days ago
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I tend to agree, this has far too many downside's to be viable.
written by westmillfoods 609 days ago
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I also think this isn't a good idea as this would be unfair to new webmasters
This is a great idea as long as it is an option.
Checkbox - Block all uncategorized domains
written by cleanmedia 606 days ago
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Cool idea!
I think it is related to the idea of white listing.
No problem at all for webmasters - just tag and you're in.
(Obviously it must be optional to filter uncategorized sites, because this is a feature for about 1% to 5% of the users only - possibly of users that wouldn't use Internat at all otherwise.)
written by Homer T. Nacho Cheese 585 days ago
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This may seem like a great idea, but definitely needs to be an option. I think that almost everyone who tries it will hate it immediately. Our company has about 300 vendors and 3000 customers. At least 80% have web sites. Close to zero percent are tagged in here and even less (probably zero) would be voted on. So, when my employees want to get to a customer/vendor web site, I have to take the time to white list it, wait for the votes, or just turn this option off. Very counter-productive.
But, if it only takes an hour for OpenDNS to develop it, then they might as well do it, but put a disclaimer next to the option that says "you will probably not like this!"
Ah, some day...
It will be really cool if, some day, the number of active participants among the OpenDNS users is large enough that we could have a SIG (special interest group) whose members specialize in finding/categorizing newly-emerging sites.
It will be really cool some day, AND a great relief, if OpenDNS had so many active participants that MOST sites on the web are tagged... to the point that it becomes a trust/status symbol -- "your site ain't nuttin'. It ain't been tagged as relevant (to what I'm doing, via the web, at this moment) and, with my kids sitting here in the room, I'm not taking the chance that it's even trustworthy".
That "some day" is off in the distance, though.
Today, what we have is... confusion. We have members trying to be helpful, but tagging "groups.google.com" as 'pornography'. We have well-meaning participants wasting hours submitting
hamster-dance-on-your-face.seax.info
corn-beef-and-cabbage-yum.seax.info
hey-kid-want-some-candy.seax.info
mi-puta-es-mas-viejo-que-su-puta.seax.info
^---- zero-sum. Can't win! The root domain is a search engine trap, with a honkin' HUGE, daily-changing zone file, spewing hostnames to match anticipated search results...
...and the OpenDNS reporting system doesn't yet have a way to communicate to these people "Hey, we got it covered. You can effectively block Anything.dot.seax.info by enabling the porn (or even adult) filter for your account."
(Actually, I haven't even checked to see if this particular domain, used in the example above, *is* blocked at the root domain level.)
This is the same as the other listed idea, "Block all uncategorized domains". We need this as an option. People with kids need this feature - without it, kids can look at porn all day long.
Without this feature, OpenDNS is actually quite worthless.
I would suggest that sites not found in the tagging get in the uncategorized zone so other users can vote form them and categories them
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I think you are mixing things up here.
DNS does not prevent spam, DNS allows you to visit a domain.
Also: do you realize how many WebPages there are? openDNS domain tagging didn't even scratch the surface of labeling all domains. It would be madness to use this approach since people who have no interest in tagging domains would be forced to do so.