11 ms·
I like this, but be ready for 'questionable content' like dox and password lists. Dealing with that crap was why I stopped running pastebin.com :)
by lordelph 10y ago
I like this, but be ready for 'questionable content' like dox and password lists. Dealing with that crap was why I stopped running pastebin.com :)
- shshhdhs 10y agoHave you ever done an AMA? I imagine that would be interesting..
- tomcam 10y agoDitto. Those who ignore history etc
- lordelph 10y agoI don't think I have that many interesting stories, it was just the time involved with dealing with emails from irate individuals, companies, and (occasionally) law enforcement agencies!
- tradersam 10y agoStill would be interesting, pastebin probably had almost every user-type imaginable.
- KirinDave 10y agoHonestly what I'd love to know is how you scaled it and how you would/wouldn't scale it again.
- sameerds 10y agoBut in an AMA, it's the audience that asks interesting questions, with you discovering that your stories are more interesting than you originally thought they would be!
- i336_ 10y agoI was trawling through /bestcomments, saw your comment extracted on its own, and opened this thread to suggest you share some life stories. And then I see others have requested AMAs too. pastebin is, after all, the #1 site. And you did (more or less) say you stopped running it due to stress/"interestingness" :) Like another commentator said, you would've gotten one of everything. So please do consider it. :)
- return0 10y agothey will most likely get spam first, as they allow links. from those seo people
- Trundle 10y agoIf they're not indexed then I can't see the value.
- return0 10y agoit happened to something similar i did many moons ago , even with nofollow. i dont know why
- tyingq 10y agoNofollow links seem to help with getting the target indexed. So, the spammers create their second and third tiers of actual content on sites that do not use nofollow. However, they'll use anything with any kind of links to get those tiers crawled and indexed.
- return0 10y agoi guess thats what they did. funny, it seems they got penalized regardless somehow, because i started getting emails asking to please remove the spam they posted. Edit: It seems some of them were trying to damage competitor's SEO ranking by posting irregular links. SEO is wild west.
- tyingq 10y agoThankfully the old "blasting links" type of SEO is pretty much dead now.
- Trundle 10y agoWhen you say something similar do you mean also not indexed, or do you mean you ran a text submission site with nofollow links?
- problems 10y agoIsn't that easy to deal with? Sit back, relax and wait for a court order or your own ISP's demand kind of thing? That's been my policy when running this kind of thing in the past - maybe I've been living behind CloudFlare and OVH for too long.
- rsync 10y agoWe (and by we, I mean, I) launched "Oh By"[1] last year which is very, very much like what is going on here, but with deliberately human-readable and recognizable codes ("Oh By Codes") .... Do you have any comments ? Of course we had pastebin very much in mind - not as a model to follow but as an analogous service in some ways. Our message is limited to 4096 characters so it isn't quite as useful for large docs ... but it's much easier to pass around the "code" chalked on the street ... [1] https://0x.co https://0x.co
- desireco42 10y agoThis is genius. I love it.
- Esau 10y agoThat's interesting. I am surprised I didn't see the mention of this last year.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- austenallred 10y agoHahaha, I built something just like this site once, just to see what would happen. Wouldn't this be fun? No auth, no rules, no permanent database, just plain text that hangs out for a while (though people could reply to it - ours was more like a forum). The ones with replies jump to the top, everything else slowly falls off into the abyss where it can never be found again. Literally had people posting ASCII-rendered child pornography within 24 hours
- ninov 10y agoSo, like 4chan but without images?
- austenallred 10y agoya pretty much
- i336_ 10y agoApart from the last line, that site design sounds like a lot of fun. I'm guessing you went "okay this isn't going to work" and killed it - or is it still quietly buried somewhere? Also, did you keep the code? Might be a fun startpoint for others to springboard off of.
- austenallred 10y ago> Apart from the last line, that site design sounds like a lot of fun "Other than that, how did you enjoy the play, Mrs. Lincoln?" :) Nah the code is gone. Wrote it in <24 hours, and it wasn't really worth keeping.
- i336_ 10y agoHehe. Gotcha. Thanks for the reply!
- sametmax 10y agoGod i feel you. Everytime a pastebin close we get a surge of dox / warez / child porn activity on http://0bin.net http://0bin.net. Since by design we can't monitor it we just get notified after the fact by concerned citizens mailing us. One month our mailbox is empty, the other one it's report day every day.
- pjc50 10y agoHow confident are you in your legal shield that, although you know your service is being used for child porn, you're claiming not to be responsible for it? Edit: I see you're behind whoisguard but hosted in Bulgaria, which is probably uninterested enough in chasing you.
- jordanwallwork 10y agoOh cool I'd not heard of this before but it looks awesome. Good work
- zump 10y agoThe internet is horrifying.
- nicky0 10y agoThe internet reveals the horrifying nature of humanity.
- Walf 10y ago*of the worst of technically literate humanity.
- tripzilch 10y agoIf you're implying that the technically literate are either better or worse in this respect (or even just differently distributed), you might want to back that up with some arguments. Maybe you tried to say something else but otherwise I don't see the point of this remark.
- Walf 10y agoNo, I'm highlighting that nicky0's phrasing over-generalises.