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This message is both for staff (@Admins @Moderators @Welcomers) and the general population. Because you can fix your own request threads and you may be asked to if this happens to one of your threads.
If you are using Chrome, you may see a message like this:
https://i.gyazo.com/304f12f5baf9dd05785ffa78a17ac0ef.png
Or an http auth notice, which asks for a username and password to access something even though you're already logged in here and can see the site fine. This is sometimes innocuous but this can also be used to harvest passwords, so obviously don't respond to any weird password requests like that unless I personally tell you when and where they should be happening.
In these cases, a site you were linking to has been compromised and the images linked to on that site need to be pruned. If Chrome is blocking you, you can do this by logging into BMR using a web browser that doesn't pull its blacklist straight from Google (Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi...) and gut them that way.
For moderators, you should actually search for the compromised site using the search tool, so we can prune the images from the entire forum. If there are a lot of posts with the offending site, contact me and I can mass-prune the domain from our database.
Edit the offending post (turning WYSIWYG off using the gear on the right helps) and delete and bad images.
Note that we now require members to link to images via https, though this hasn't changed old posts. Most major sites just need an 's' added to the linked images e.g.
Becomes
This works for all major image hosts, including some pornographic ones.
Safe browsing, everyone. : )
If you are using Chrome, you may see a message like this:
https://i.gyazo.com/304f12f5baf9dd05785ffa78a17ac0ef.png
Or an http auth notice, which asks for a username and password to access something even though you're already logged in here and can see the site fine. This is sometimes innocuous but this can also be used to harvest passwords, so obviously don't respond to any weird password requests like that unless I personally tell you when and where they should be happening.
In these cases, a site you were linking to has been compromised and the images linked to on that site need to be pruned. If Chrome is blocking you, you can do this by logging into BMR using a web browser that doesn't pull its blacklist straight from Google (Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi...) and gut them that way.
For moderators, you should actually search for the compromised site using the search tool, so we can prune the images from the entire forum. If there are a lot of posts with the offending site, contact me and I can mass-prune the domain from our database.
Edit the offending post (turning WYSIWYG off using the gear on the right helps) and delete and bad images.
Note that we now require members to link to images via https, though this hasn't changed old posts. Most major sites just need an 's' added to the linked images e.g.
Code:
http://something.tumblr.comBecomes
Code:
https://something.tumblr.comThis works for all major image hosts, including some pornographic ones.
Safe browsing, everyone. : )