Formal Letter to SE about RMT situation.

[Lenne]

It's harder than you think

I explained it here

Thanks for your link. I'd like to say I fully understand, but I'm not sure I do. xD

For me, the problem is they aren't using those symbols to pad their urls. I'm saying they are straight out writing their urls cleanly and plainly for all to see and understand, because they are allowed. I guess my lack of knowledge hurts me, but I assumed with how swear words could get filtered out in XI with asterisks, even with spaces and stuff between the letters, the same could be done for reported urls. :/ I know my request was nothing new, but it is extremely frustrating to see these bots get away with blatantly advertising with no setbacks whatsoever.

Edit:

Because they go from www.example.com to example.com to e x a m p l e . c o m to "$.com Google $=example" , so straight up blocking one doesn't block the other 3 examples, to say nothing of the cyrillic and greek substitutions. So you also have to consider шшш.example.℃0㎡ as well as "еxample.cоm" (the e and the o are cyrillic, but on your screen they look the same as latin)

Thanks for the further explanation. It just sucks that it's too hard to combat. Like I said, I wasn't trying to claim it was an original idea, stupid me just thought it was possible to implement. ._.

[KisaiTenshi]

Thanks for your link. I'd like to say I fully understand, but I'm not sure I do. xD

For me, the problem is they aren't using those symbols to pad their urls. I'm saying they are straight out writing their urls cleanly and plainly for all to see and understand, because they are allowed. I guess my lack of knowledge hurts me, but I assumed with how swear words could get filtered out in XI with asterisks, even with spaces and stuff between the letters, the same could be done for reported urls. :/ I know my request was nothing new, but it is extremely frustrating to see these bots get away with blatantly advertising with no setbacks whatsoever.

Because they go from www.example.com to example.com to e x a m p l e . c o m to "$.com Google $=example" , so straight up blocking one doesn't block the other 3 examples, to say nothing of the cyrillic and greek substitutions. So you also have to consider шшш.example.℃0㎡ as well as "еxample.cоm" (the e and the o are cyrillic, but on your screen they look the same as latin)