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Don't forget the one in the source code that will automatically get your account banned! (I leave posting it here as an exercise to the reader.)

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Priceless! Thank you for making my day.

http://tinyurl.com/22q5z9

Which ?may? lead to a site "whose name we dare not speak?... which loads only if "http://www." is removed from it... and then displays message:

"Down until 4/19/08 due to bandwidth limitations!

Want to advertise?"

This entire discussion is feeling very surreal - with innuendos about poison-named domains that ban one's account. I do like the idea of openness about banning policies. Why force people to stumble around in the dark and then be punished when they step in the dog piles?

[Or is there a concern about legal concerns if one "vilifies" a site by pronouncing it banned?]

I can't see the site, but it looks like some kind of dumb meme:

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=internet%20serious%20bu...

I don't understand the joke. Can someone please explain?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=THE%20INTERNE...

It's an Internet meme.

That particular site had the Rickroll video and a nasty series of infinite javascript popups. So yes, I was Rickroll'd by Paul Graham, and it crashed my browser.

I have looked in the source code and haven't seen this? :/

I believe that he is talking about:

news.arc:1181-1182

Could you please explain this one?

For the curious, here are the lines:

http://skitch.com/swombat/bgqky/news.arc

I think it just ignores the comment, rather than autobanning.

Any reason why you didn't paste that code directly into your comment and took an image of the text instead?

Als, where can I get this code?

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