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Filtered from work

Just one personal niggle. I work in a school and none of us can visit the forum due to the word 'talk' in the title. The school filters kick in and block the site.

I perfectly understand why schools filters the word (and others) out, but I do miss popping in to read the latest posts. They obviously associate the word with chatrooms.

Thankfully, I didn't have this problem when I had issues a while back, but only since the upgrade of the site.

I know I'm just a small cog in a vast engine, but if you could rename the folder, I'd be able to pop in and post more often (as I seem to spend most of my life at work).:shrug:
 
They block a common language word like 'talk'? That's just plain ridiculous, PC gone nuts :) . I'd ask if they can exclude the website from those filters as we're obviously not showing porn or grooming kids here lol.

Sadly I can't just rename /talk because it would ruin inbound links from external sites and search engines, which are very important. I could use mod_rewrite to make it possible for /forum to work but as soon as you clicked another link it would revert to /talk.
 
I'll ask, but knowing the speed our IT department work at....nuff said.

It's become a real pain surfing at work. I'd say something like 70% of sites are blocked now for some reason or other. The problem is that kids are so cleaver at getting around all this protection. As soon as one door is slammed shut, they soon find anyther way to get round it. This cat and mouse game has gone on for years and the result is a filter system that has made surfing almost impossible for those that want to use the net for their legitimate work. Even our admin staff who need to shop online for teachers on occasions suffer this darn filter.

We adults are not half as clued up as the kids are.

My only protest is that I use that stupid hedgehog as my avatar LOL

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I hate that ruddy hedgehog...:hrmph:
 
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