We're not censoring it. I don't know why it isn't showing up (well,
technically I do, but I don't know what's causing that) and we're
looking into the problem. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Regards,
Toby Elliott
del.icio.us
On Apr 11, 2008, at 8:43 AM, warlingham wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've come across an interesting example of blocking / censorship on
> del.icio.us.
>
> I started a site yesterday and someone (not me) first bookmarked it on
> del.icio.us just over 24 hours ago. It was then linked on prominent
> blogs and YCombinator News and 86 other people bookmarked it (all
> natural, no-one was asked). Despite this, on all users pages of people
> who bookmarked it, and on tag pages it exists on, there are no "saved
> by X other people" links.
>
> This level of bookmarking would typically put a link into /popular, or
> at least the popular page for its main tag (/popular/ruby in this
> case), but since del.icio.us is failing to note the "saved by X other
> people" though, it's not making it there.
>
> What makes it all a bit suspicious is that I went to del.icio.us/url
> and entered the URL manually. Ta-da, I can see the number of people
> who bookmarked it. That page is here:
>
>
http://del.icio.us/url/a28d36b3f289c39be53aeef14fcca474>
> So if del.icio.us is engaging in censoring / blocking of certain URLs
> (assuming this isn't a bug), why and how? What are the criteria? Is it
> because the domain name for the site is so newly registered, for
> example?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter Cooper
>
http://www.petercooper.co.uk/>
>
>
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