Banned, banned and banned.

smemon

Just came to back today from our week off and was shocked to discover 3 sites i use/browse, all banned :mad: and re-directing to a nice custom blocked page integrated into the dkit website template, not the usual 'red alert' type page we got before.

digg, meebo and myspace - all banned.

what i can't understand is why bebo/facebook aren't banned if myspace is?

also, why is meebo banned? and digg - for the love of god, not digg, it's what keeps me from going brain dead during the 2 or 3 hours gaps we might have between classes :rolleyes:

ok, it doesn't take a genius to bypass all this, but that's not the point. If myspace, digg and meebo go down, why not take bebo and youtube, gmail etc down with them..

obviously the idea behind it is to increase productivity (that won't happen, it will just annoy people and they'll find a way around it, which will result in the internet police playing catch up to ban all the proxies and monitor things tightly), so if that is indeed the basis for banning these sites, why not ban the lot?

Atomic Pineapple

lecterurs had them unblock bebo because they felt it was wrong to stop students from socially networking and they unblocked youtube as aot of students were using it as a resource.

i never heard of digg or meebo

just after looking them up and digg seems like it probably isn't monitered?? could be wrong just had a glance.

meebo is a great idea though and i cant see the point in blocking it, it must be taking up too much bandwidth when its used??

The Bollox

well they can't block Gmail because it's the primary account for a lot of students

smemon

Well the reality is they can't block anything, but it's the gesture that's annoying.

I can understand the thinking behind it... but myspace is basically a bigger version of bebo. Virtually the same thing. Why ban one and not the other?

Inconsistency. If this was a premiership referee red carding a player for a foul and turning a blind eye to the exact same foul at a later stage, their head would be on the chopping board and they'd be dropped to a lower league.

Digg is not somewhere you go to chat to people and play games, it's a great news site aimed at the older/more mature age group, not a self promoting teen site.

im...LOST

Where are you trying to access these sites? Bebo and YouTube is only blocked in the library, AFAIK. In the computer labs there are no restrictions. Well, this is what I realised anyway.

It's strange that digg is blocked. Although it's a huge site on a worldwide scale, I didn't really think that it have a huge influence in Ireland, neverming the younger students.....

It's a load of bo!!ox tbh....

Atomic Pineapple

yeh i never heard of digg before.....

they blocked a few new sites today it seems i heard people giving out about that warez site being blocked

smemon

they were all banned in the computer labs by the way, never tried the library, assume it's the same :cool:

Ah well, i guess that's it. No-one will ever be able to access those sites ever again from DKIT.

Students will spend more time studying, get better results, and we'll all be looking back praising this life changing decision with PhD's under our belts. :cool:

annex

bebo should be banned.
I took a few Learning Centre classes last week and one of the students attending spent more time on damn bebo than he did on programming. He had to be told several times to shut it down.
P!$$ed me right off :mad:
But yeah I see your point, if you are going to ban one social networking site you should ban them all.

I suppose you could work on your book review thingy

Merrick

Damn, that's annoying. I don't use bebo/myspace much anymore, but I use meebo It's silly only banning myspace and not bebo too. I can see why they did it though, especially in the library.

BTW, was bebo unblocked because the lecturers asked it to be..? This just doesn't make sense!!

K.O.Kiki

IIRC, Bebo is actually bigger in Ireland than MySpace.

Hey, here's an idea: the admins are trying to figure out HOW you're circumventing their blocks

Merrick

Don't reckon so, they copped on to a good lot of our block-passers last year...
I actually think you're right too, as far as the college goes, I hardly ever see anyone on myspace there.

That_Guy

Next they'll be trying to block boards.

im...LOST

I accessed bebo in the computer labs a few weeks ago.....Not through a proxy or anything, just bebo.com and I was away....

That_Guy

You gotta be loving the computing labs.

Merrick

That_Guy wrote: »

Next they'll be trying to block boards.

Not if we're using it much (conspicuously) in class... hopefully!

RxQueen

well where i work everthing is banned. eve bcc new is banned!! the only thing that is banned it this, and this will be banned again the end of the month when they run of reports and see that i was using it PAH!

Merrick

Ha, same here, I can't use teh interweb for anything fun at all at work... Not even boards!

RxQueen

yeah like they xpect us to work!! wtf!:p

Merrick

Or to stare quietly out the window/at the wall in between our small periods of actual work! It's madness I tells ya!

RxQueen

Merrick wrote: »

Or to stare quietly out the window/at the wall in between our small periods of actual work! It's madness I tells ya!

i find staring out the window very upsetting, to the point that i start getting evnious at the people walk up and down. and then i start slagging them off !! altho it can be very funny if somebody trips over and hope nobody seen them. at that point i make sure they know i say them !haha!:D

Merrick

Well at least you can see a road, I only get a view of a church tower and trees :rolleyes:

RxQueen

yeah i do have a better view than you i guess!! today there putting up the chirstmas lights outside, with on of them cherry pickers(is that what there called!) and it keeps going beep beep beep .. its driving me mad!

Merrick

Christmas lights already..? Damn...
In town?

RxQueen

yeah dam chirstmas lights, but loads of shops around me have all there lights up, santas and tinstle and crap in there shop --our shop is not left put up anything!! the shop across the road was selling christmas cards at the start of september- waaaaay to early!

Merrick

Meh, I suppose tis only to be expected now. Sure Dunnes stared selling Christmas stuff before the Halloween stuff....

K.O.Kiki

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

RxQueen

Merrick wrote: »

Meh, I suppose tis only to be expected now. Sure Dunnes stared selling Christmas stuff before the Halloween stuff....

ha and the funny thing is people actually buy the stuff!! pah ..!

RxQueen

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

well isnt that great..... for you!! go back and do some work:p

Merrick

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

Well, good for you.....

RxQueen

Merrick wrote: »

Well, good for you.....

nah not good for him he just a boaster! pah!:p

Third_Echelon

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

In my work, nothing is banned.
BOOYAH!

me + 1

No Internet blocks back in my DKIT days... :cool:

I would have thought that if they were going to block any social networking sites that myspace might be the prime candidate as it generally has a lot more bandwidth intensive features such as streaming music and videos....

To be honest, the only thing in colleges that should be banned are warez and pr0n. Everything else I reckon is fair game.

In classes though if some eegit is surfing the net when they are supposed to be doing work, then the lecturer has every right to give him a smack across the head