[hackerspaces] Resolving a Facebook ban on a domain url

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Yogananda

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Feb 4, 2012, 9:08:15 AM2/4/12
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Hi all

I have been recommend this forum by a friend and I hope that someone
may be able to help out.

I have a major issue with Facebook. One of my friends (FB profile:
Baba Rampuri) sites is blocked on FB, so whenever someone posts a link
to this domain "rampuri.com", a window pops up and says that the
domain is blocked, due to spammy or offensive content. I assure you
there is nothing that comes even close to that.
None of our profile or fan pages have been blocked, it's only the
domain URL - so far.
I and about ten other people have tried contacting FB to get them to
lift the ban, but have heard NOTHING from "them". It seems, to me, to
be a fully automated computing process, with no trace of humans around.

The reason the URL is blocked is most likely because of a power
struggle going on in the American yogabusiness, and we are confronting
and challenging some of the big players (the Ashtanga yoga cult and
the Hare Krishnas). We have been "attacked" on other levels as well.

Does anyone have an idea how to get in contact with a human being
working in FB or does anyone know someone at FB, preferably in the
US ??!!!???
Facebook should also have a "whitelist" of sites reviewed and approved
by them, so that eventhough someone should report the "whitelisted"
domain as spam, nothing will happen, because it is already given
Marc's stamp of approval. How to get on that list ??!!!??


Thanks, any ideas are very appreciated !!

Yogananda

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h0uz3

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Feb 4, 2012, 9:13:17 AM2/4/12
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Is this a general computer support mailing list now?

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Danyelle Davis

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Feb 4, 2012, 10:08:22 AM2/4/12
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I call spam. 

Sean Bonner

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Feb 5, 2012, 12:35:27 AM2/5/12
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Did you check if your computer is plugged in?
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Rhys Rhaven

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Feb 7, 2012, 5:01:09 PM2/7/12
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I think its rather cool that you were referred to hackerspaces.org
because hackers would be knowledgeable on the subject. Unfortunately you
have to find someone who also agrees with you before they help. Sadly I
think you're peddling bullshit. 'Sacred Wisdom.' Lol.

Chris Weiss

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Feb 7, 2012, 5:28:44 PM2/7/12
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so, facebook spews on about the "hacker way" in their SEC filing and
now all the sudden we're all buddies?

so, yeah.

get all your fans to petition faceless corporation to unban you. or,
sue them, and those you think wrongly banned you. "pretty please"
doens't work on facebook inc, it's run by money grubbing asses.

Volatile Compound

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Feb 7, 2012, 6:13:44 PM2/7/12
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Oh, good. I was afraid this thread wouldn't end up raging against any
machines other than the Vast Yoga-Wing Conspiracy.

- skroo.

Chris Weiss

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Feb 7, 2012, 6:16:22 PM2/7/12
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On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Volatile Compound
<volatile...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, good.  I was afraid this thread wouldn't end up raging against any
> machines other than the Vast Yoga-Wing Conspiracy.

glad to be of service. thank you, come again!

Al Jigong Billings

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Feb 7, 2012, 6:23:48 PM2/7/12
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On 2/7/12 3:16 PM, Chris Weiss wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Volatile Compound
> <volatile...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Oh, good. I was afraid this thread wouldn't end up raging against any
>> > machines other than the Vast Yoga-Wing Conspiracy.
> glad to be of service. thank you, come again!

Can we talk about hackerspaces or something useful now?

Al

Tim Saylor

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Feb 8, 2012, 10:34:26 AM2/8/12
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Sure.  Wouldn't it be awesome if hackerspaces taught the secret wisdom of the ancient yoga masters?  Knowledge wants to be free, man!

Greg McGuire

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Feb 8, 2012, 11:55:31 AM2/8/12
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Do any hackerspaces have a yoga class?

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Mel Shamanka

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Feb 8, 2012, 12:03:22 PM2/8/12
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That would be interesting. Mind and body hacking class before hacking away hardware.

Will Bradley

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Feb 8, 2012, 12:22:34 PM2/8/12
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We decided martial arts didn't fit well next to bench grinders... isn't a martial arts hackerspace called a dojo? ;)

Sam Brown

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Feb 8, 2012, 12:25:34 PM2/8/12
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I'm actually trying to build a punch-o-meter for my punching bags.  Martial arts and Hacking for life!


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Matt Goodman

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Feb 8, 2012, 2:05:31 PM2/8/12
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There is a joke somewhere to be made about
" Can we talk about hackerspaces or something useful now?"

Otherwise  . . .
Perhaps I should write a bot that scrapes Google for yoga studios and adds them to the hackerspaces wiki :P
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Rhys Rhaven

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Feb 8, 2012, 5:10:05 PM2/8/12
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Guy did a 300 seconds at PS:1 on tricking. Its like yoga with triple kicks to the face. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricking
I had never heard of it before.

The Doctor

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Feb 9, 2012, 12:57:35 PM2/9/12
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On 02/08/2012 12:03 PM, Mel Shamanka wrote:
> That would be interesting. Mind and body hacking class before
> hacking away hardware.

I'm thinking EEG and EMG experimentation...

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