_AceLewis | 207 points
Meta posts have to be text posts, from the original post:
""" Comments containing mega links are now shadowbanned on Reddit, if you post a comment containing one it will only show up to you and no one else. You can verify this by posting a comment on this post with a mega link (mega.co.nz currently works only .nz is banned) then navigating to this post in a different browser or in incognito mode, you will not see you comment. You can view the comment if you go to it via a permalink (and if you view the thread after seeing the permalink) but it is not visible to other people in any other circumstance. Also an example, my comment is not showing up but if you go directly to it you can see it: https://www.reddit.com/r/MEGA/comments/7dbac1/comments_containing_meganz_links_are_now/dpwg7sl/ """
https://www.reddit.com/r/MEGA/comments/7dbac1/comments_containing_meganz_links_are_now/
[-] MrTattyBojangles | 22 points
This is what base64 is for, right?
[-] TJHookerWithAPenis | 16 points
my comment is not showing up but if you go directly to it you can see it
Nope. It said there was 1 comment but didn't display it. It does not appear in your comment history either.
Edit: But it doesn't matter. We don't need a clickable link.
You are right, in my testing I could go to permalinks but I must have been logged into the other browser or something, possibly it could also be IP address based.
Either way you can test it for yourself, reddit is censoring comments with mega links in them.
This is what I can see when logged in: https://i.imgur.com/EFceUgD.png
[-] TJHookerWithAPenis | 3 points
Strangely enough, I can see it on your comment history now. Weird.
Thanks for the heads up.
[-] Alacritous | 1 points
If you have chrome just right click on permalink and click open in incognito window.
Has this not been the case for a while? Similarly links from ZippyShare and Openload among others are also not visible unless manually approved.
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[-] ASentientBot | 3 points
Wait, I can see this...?
[-] JeremyHafford | 7 points
Query: So in the requests threads, if I fulfill their request, I can't provide the link in a reply? Or would that be an exception?
Just base64 the whole damn thing and paste the gibberish. Everyone should be obfuscating links anyway. 🙂
You can as long as you disguise it (remove the .nz for example as it's obvious) or use services like pastebin/links.snahp.it
You just should not include the link, it is not subreddit specific so there is no exception possible.
Currently you can put the .co.nz domain as that will redirect to the correct domain but it is probably best to "protect" the link via other methods. That also makes it harder to scrape them.
[-] TotesMessenger | 5 points
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[-] Dingus_leMingus | 3 points
Just post the part of the link starting with !, then it will be fine.
[-] age_of_cage | 2 points
I assumed this was known here, it's been this way for a couple months at least.
[-] Alacritous | 2 points
Can't you set a rule in automod to automatically approve them right away?
[-] thevodkaboy | 1 points
kinda figured this would happen soon. i've opted to use Base64. less obvious.
Great! let's all post adf.ly links that redirect to the actual mega link in the future!
/s
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That is not a link, it needs the http or https part to be clickable.
[-] [deleted] | 2 points
so we could just delete the http right?
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[-] Frankly_George | 1 points
what was the point of shadowbanning those links again?
Least amount of effort possible that buys the admins time because the complaint has been "solved" while not actually inconveniencing the site's users in any real appreciable manner.
The MAFIAA lawyers get to earn their bonus for shutting down that horrible site, the admins can log a standing issue as being fixed with the knowledge of job security because whack-a-mole is the easiest make work ever, we keep on passing around base64 output without thinking about it and everyone gets what they want.
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[-] Frankly_George | 3 points
what complaint, that the subreddit shared links to a site that could be used to host illegal content?
Yup.
I can see the admin's reply now:
[-] ScyllaHide | 1 points
base decode is fine for me or any linkcryptor, as long as i see all links.
[-] generalecchi | -4 points
reddit admin cucks
[-] John_Yuki | 44 points | Nov 16 2017 13:03:16
Can confirm they are spam filtered. I'm a moderator on /r/footballmanagergames, and I've had a few people post mega.nz links recently that were automatically spam filtered, whereas they never have been before. This makes them invisible to other people unless I manually approve the comment/post that the link was in. The links also don't appear in my modqueue, so unless I stumble upon them by chance, I won't ever know that they have been spam filtered.
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[-] sebastian404 | 16 points | Nov 16 2017 14:51:14
I had that similar problem in one of my subreddits with links to AliExpress.
We had to set up an AutoModerator rule that auto approved them, tho it's a bit sketchy that we have to do that
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