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Warn people rather than sending notification for inappropriate link/texts in profile

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We should warn people rather than sending notification to them for inappropriate links in profile. I had set a link in my profile long day ago. I usually "bought" that domain (in free). So recently it was expired and maybe it was renewed by someone else and set a forwarder to a pornographic website. Maybe someone reported to staff and a staff had removed that link and sent me a notification

Heads up! I've cleared the website field in your profile, because it links to a pornographic website. Ping me on Discord (@staff's_username#number) for questions.

The notification was looking like that (I removed staff name). When I saw that notification I thought it was a spam notification (and the database was attacked). So I started writing a post. Then I looked at my profile then see that a link is missing then I realized it's true. So I verified by visiting that link.

To be aware of this problems we should warn people rather than sending notification. (I don't care if I was warned, I wouldn't add much more links in profile anymore. When it comes to staff, I will be just silent and I will think their account was hacked or something wrong happened to their account)

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Why did you think that the database was attacked? (3 comments)
Why did you think that the database was attacked?
Trilarion‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Has it happened before? Would hackers be likely to send such notifications? As a phishing attempt it looks rather disingenuous.

deleted user wrote almost 3 years ago

I was trying to click on that link but It was returning me to no where. So, I simply thought there was some "problem". Even I remembered that moment I never added a inappropriate links. That's why I thought the database was attacked.

Trilarion‭ wrote almost 3 years ago

Ah, the message was basically missing context then. It should have told you in which field you were adding which link that was removed and it should have told you how to reply in a meaningful way. Not sure that replying to moderator notifications is a feature of the software yet.