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Warn people rather than sending notification for inappropriate link/texts in profile
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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We attempted to reach out via Discord DM to notify you of the issue - doing it publicly, such as via comments, wasn't the way we wanted to go about addressing this.
Unfortunately, there was no response to the Discord DMs that were sent, and we really didn't want to leave a link to a porn site live on someone's profile. Given that, we elected to remove the link directly and send an on-site notification about it.
(We don't actually have a non-warning messaging system built in yet; a developer had to manually send that notification. It's something we do want to build, and that would have been used to first alert you to the problem before we removed the link if that system existed. It doesn't, so we used Discord instead.)
In short, this was a last resort after privately reaching out was met with no results.
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