From what I gather from the very limited information available between here and communities.win, people seem to be under the false belief that having separate domains will somehow make the site safer from attack (to the point of implementing this archaic web ring system) as it somewhat “decentralizes” (though not really) the separate domains from attack (though also really only one main kind of attack, and certainly not subversion).
This of course complete bullshit, but that’s what I’ve gathered.
I thought it was cause we did’t want to be held accountable for what places like weekendgunnit say or do on their site? Since it’s completely separate no atf knocking down our doors Waco style.
thedonald can't be held to account for stuff on those other sites if they purchase their own domain and maintain their own systems. The only thing thedonald provides at that point is source code and authentication services and can't be forced to remove/maintain content on all the other places.
From what I gather from the very limited information available between here and communities.win, people seem to be under the false belief that having separate domains will somehow make the site safer from attack (to the point of implementing this archaic web ring system) as it somewhat “decentralizes” (though not really) the separate domains from attack (though also really only one main kind of attack, and certainly not subversion).
This of course complete bullshit, but that’s what I’ve gathered.
I thought it was cause we did’t want to be held accountable for what places like weekendgunnit say or do on their site? Since it’s completely separate no atf knocking down our doors Waco style.
Don't the same admins control who's on the "web ring"? So it's not really completely separate if that's true.
Also, why not just make it a "platform" and allow anything so long as it's legal? Hell it's not like 230 has ever been enforced anyway.
thedonald can't be held to account for stuff on those other sites if they purchase their own domain and maintain their own systems. The only thing thedonald provides at that point is source code and authentication services and can't be forced to remove/maintain content on all the other places.