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Pastebin to hire staff to tackle hackers' 'sensitive' posts
- nthitz 15y agoConsidering the none of the top posts on the Trending Pastes page contains any source code, I'd say the site has drifted from it's original mission of "The website is mainly used by programmers to store pieces of sources code or configuration information" However they state everyone is welcome to post any text, so they aren't discriminating. Users are just mainly using their service for a different purpose than they intended.
- mcpherrinm 15y agoOn the other hand, it seems most of the new public pastes are source code or configuration. I assume that anybody sharing code snippets via pastebin is using it in a disposable way, since we have other places like github to share code in a more robust way. Thus they never end up on the "Trending" page.
- rhizome 15y agoEven though not even mentioned in the story, I'm guessing he also got a visit or two from The Man.
- zitterbewegung 15y agoI'm beginning to think that this marks the point where people who post 'sensitive' information will start to move to other services.
- jacobr 15y agoThere is definitely room for a Pastebin-like service for plain text (blog posts). When Pastebin had massive traffic from Anonymous posts, I considered building something (I got blogb.in), but couldn't continue due to personal reasons.
- rglullis 15y agohttp://jottit.com http://jottit.com
- norswap 15y agoJeroen Vader, only you could be so bold. (Sorry, couldn't help it.)