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Why is this submission flagged?

• dang 3y ago
  We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I'd guess it was because the submitted link (https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/3CgRd01Ypw https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/3CgRd01Ypw) just redirects to a login screen: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/login/?dest=https%3A%2F%2Fold.reddit.com%2Fr%2Fselfhosted%2Fsubmit%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252F3CgRd01Ypw https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/login/?dest=https%3A%2F%.... Googling the title leads to https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bouuv7/warning_vultr_a_major_cloud_provider_is_now/ https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bouuv7/warning..., which I guess is the same content? We can change the URL to that above. Edit: oh, and I see several other commenters in the thread were already linking to that URL.
  • YeBanKo 3y ago
    Maybe it’s too late, but I think it would make sense to update the link.
    • dang 3y ago
      Yes, I did.
  • mindslight 3y ago
    That new URL still just goes to a login screen. I believe this is due to recent reddit policy change. > whoa there, pardner! Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing. It seems that reddit has now followed Xitter with requiring logins to drive engagement numbers, effectively rejecting the open web. Extractive screw turning was probably inevitable with the naive central-server design of webapps, but going through the destruction part of creative destruction still sucks.
    • dang 3y ago
      Hmm the new URL doesn't do that for me; whereas the previous URL did. If the links sometimes do that and sometimes don't, it's going to be hard to figure out what to do, short of banning the site. Boo.