Wix Websites being blocked?

[Zunkey]

Wix websites being blocked and other north korea like restrictions?

So before you read:

This was made earlier, Im too lazy to edit it.
We have covered alot of topics that dont change the fact that this is an injustice, and I suggest you read all the comments. Im getting real sick of answering the same question rephrased 30 times because people refuse to read previous pages...

also, moderator comment:

Originally posted by erλm:

Free web style sites are blocked, youll need a real website. Wix is a freewebs.

Can you give me insight on why this was chosen in the last few days? If not thanks though.

Because if this was an existing policy, wix has been around for a long while.

Edit: again, scamming or any malacious use of wix is against theit tos, and they take down anything like it. Folloeing this there is only 5 or so reports of a website created with wix uses for spamming, again,5 websites that are bad, several million that are good.


Typed with phone


***Trigger warning: Spelling errors galore, havent bothered to fix them***
This was some crack rant I went on earlier:
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So.. Uhm.. I wanna know....
WHO WAS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?
like seriously...
The website that I spent 2 days on; the one that my group (Frigid gaming) uses for server advertising/Avalibility, Staff managment, Announcment etc is now assoiciated with a blacklisted website domain *COUGH*
Our site, http://frigid.wix.com/frigidgaming is now basicaly unusable...
right when it needed a redesign though...

anyways whats up with all the restrictions? I cant trade with poeple without waiting 3-4 days for my items,
If I cancle a trade because I misclicked I get to wait 7 days...
all because some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ was either: A: Mentaly ill, B: Drunk, C: Dident read the link or do any resereach, C: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥; (Ooh look, I cant say R E T A R D E D outloud) and they got scammed.
I now have to pay 10$ a year just for a website that we made for free that worked just fine,
Do 2 days of work again, and a whole lot more.
its getting to be too much.

Because someone failed to realise they shouldent put their password and username on a website that is does not have a secured connection?
Why should I have to go through all this trouble because someone traded outside the trade window and against all other advice and instinct, traded and got scammed.


http://store.steampowered. WIX .com/ <--- how do you get scammed by that?
can our generation just cannot for the life of them read?

Its time to stop valve...

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new video on main channel soon.

questions that I answered soooo many times already/Good points to note.

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Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Originally posted by PCProphet:

What? I can think of plenty of sites that don't use . wix that are scams. I bet you can too. So why is . wix the only domain blocked. Why not .org .gov, .com, or any of the other ones blocked

The WIX domain is blocked because, as I said prior, Steam cannot define virus-hosting sites.

have you used the wix editor? It does not allow posting of such viruses, it does have ever have a tool for 5$ where you can link a google drive file, that they can then choose to download.
It also does not allow you to store information such as passwords and other things to prevent scam sites being created.
Kill me please.
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Originally posted by Satoru:

Originally posted by «FЯIGID» Zunkey:

but without paying anything its near impossible to spoof a website like the steam store,
and if someone is *Oops. cant use a non swear word! lets use...* an idiot enough to put your steam info into one such site, why should we be punished?

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Spoofing can come in many forms. Many also impersonate other famous trading site. Or pretend to be trading sites themselves.

but password and registrations is not sent to the creator of the site, its sent to wix's login servers.
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Originally posted by airmikee99:

Right now Godaddy is offering one year of registration for $0.99, and Yahoo sells domains for $9.95 annually. If those prices are too high for you, a website should be the least of your concerns.

Its not the fact that I have a problem with paying 12$ yearly for a domain at godaddy, its the fact that a service that I use for my group of 214+ poeple, has been taken away because of someone else.
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Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

The first part of your conflict regarding the WIX .com domain has been answered by a moderator.

For the second one, restrictions are put into play for keeping the community safe. There's no way of changing what they think is rightful. And also, sorry about the content/data lost from your site.

Now for the last one, people are vulnerable and fall for website scams often. Yes, there could be some more safety barriers.

But can we just teach poeple not to be stupid? Its not that hard. I stated 3 times already that you should:

Check the url is legit under scrutiony before putting personal info of any kind

Trade in the window

Dont make deals that require faith/honor/Promise what ever if you arent willing to take the risk that you WILL 90% of the time be scammed.

Dont trade on trading websites....

dont click on phishy links... again pun intended.
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"here's really no stopping people from making these mistakes."

but instead ofi 77k people each month, we could have 600 each month...
Then I dont have to take 7 days to trade one 3 cent item...
Speaking of which the trade delays should vary on price.........


This one hasent been answered yet buts its going on the main post too,
because trust me, it will be asked again
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Originally posted by Satoru:

Again the abuse of hijackers and scammers is so large that that the entire domain is blocked

It IS happening regardless of the methodology. You keep asking for "how" despite that being irrelevant

You are asking Steam to allow scammers to abuse users on Steam just so you can host your free website there

Get your own domain if your "really" want a website. Steam has no obligation to YOU. It has an obligation to the community at large.

Again victim blaming is an uncompelling defense because it defers blame away from the root cause which is scammers. All so you can get your really junky website up. It's just your own selfishness and covering it up by blaming the victims

Im not saying steam has an obligation to me, im saying it does to a large group of people that uses it. I have yet to see these "Scams", people have given me links to what, 5 reports of it on a website that hosts several billion? 5<10000000000? you choose.

I am not asking steam to allow scammers, I am saying steam should be teaching the affected and making them read, and tell them common practice as I stated before,
Reading url's, Paying attention, Trading in the window, dont make deals that require faith/promise.

I have been scammed before in my life, and I learned my lesson. I pay attention.
Most accidents happen when a user is tired/Under drug or alchohal influence/not paying attention. People need to learn and being scammed is the problem of the end user, the only thing steam should be worried about is scamming going rampant like it was in 2010 on roblox.

Also, The methology of how steam deals with these scammers can be changed DRASTICALY.
I have suggested such things before.

The issue I have with this; was that I havent been SHOWN any of these "Scam Sites" created.
theres a total of 5 reports created by users on the wix forums, and they host several billion sites. thats a pretty good statistic if I do say. But why should I, and my group have to deal with that? Its kinda stupid. "Oh you can make your free website? ♥♥♥♥ research, lets just ban it right away"

[Forcen]

Not sure what a wix website is but I would guess its some free thing?
Time for a real website, one that costs money. Doesn't have to be much.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Forcen:

Not sure what a wix website is but I would guess its some free thing?
Time for a real website, one that costs money. Doesn't have to be much.

i have way too much knowledge about that word ...

- it is a free website builder
- it is part of written slang in german for an insult in relation with masturbation.

i dunno for what reason it is blocked.

[Zunkey]

Originally posted by wuddih:

Originally posted by Forcen:

Not sure what a wix website is but I would guess its some free thing?
Time for a real website, one that costs money. Doesn't have to be much.

i have way too much knowledge about that word ...

- it is a free website builder
- it is part of written slang in german for an insult in relation with masturbation.

i dunno for what reason it is blocked.

Yay1 that means .. our server advertising, server staff management, group annoucment and group management, forums and staff applications will all have to be redone! Woot

[Zunkey]

Originally posted by Forcen:

Not sure what a wix website is but I would guess its some free thing?
Time for a real website, one that costs money. Doesn't have to be much.

The problem is that its gonna take along time to transfer that over, and hosting takes money and time.

[Forcen]

Or just buy a domain for like 10$ per year that points to that wix thing, it won't be pretty but it would work.

They probably have scammers, viruses and stuff like that hosted on free sites like that and it is a problem on Steam, if you show you can spend to buy a domain it shows a bit more dedication then a spammer.

[Zunkey]

Originally posted by Forcen:

Or just buy a domain for like 10$ per year that points to that wix thing, it won't be pretty but it would work.

They probably have scammers, viruses and stuff like that hosted on free sites like that and it is a problem on Steam, if you show you can spend to buy a domain it shows a bit more dedication then a spammer.

But why do us people who use it for legitimate means have to now spend 10$ a year when we where using a free service thats just fine. How the ♥♥♥♥ do you scam people with a site with ".wix" in its name? Like jesus i can barely ever trade anymore without waiting 7 days. steam is becoming tge internet north korea... so many restrictions on so many thungs we used because of someone elses stupidity. Im done with it

[Forcen]

You can scam/spam people using any website, it just becomes easier to do it again and again if it is free.
Also the people like who are affected by this change is way less the people who would get exposed to harmful or spammy links from that site via steam.

[Zunkey]

Originally posted by Forcen:

You can scam/spam people using any website, it just becomes easier to do it again and again if it is free.
Also the people like who are affected by this change is way less the people who would get exposed to harmful or spammy links from that site via steam.

but its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I can rarely trade, if I cancle it my trade's get suspended for 7 days, Now I can have a website? Its other poeples stupidity that cause things like this.
"www.steamstore .wix. com" seems legit? I have to do hours and hours of work again and pay 10$ a year because of other's stupitity? with the time and work I, or valve could of just MADE A PROGRAM TO TEACH PEOPLE OF SCAMS. it gets more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ by the day.

[Vanilla]

Steam has blocked *. wix .com/ domains due to the system not knowing whether or not it's a scam.

[Zunkey]

Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Steam has blocked *. wix .com/ domains due to the system not knowing whether or not it's a scam.

If a website thats not valve is asking for you personal info, then why would you do it?
did you even read what I wrote?

[Mourningcrab3]

Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Steam has blocked *. wix .com/ domains due to the system not knowing whether or not it's a scam.

By your logic. A website that has a .com domain is safe. Only . wix is a scam site. Okay. .org? .net?

[Vanilla]

Originally posted by PCProphet:

Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Steam has blocked *. wix .com/ domains due to the system not knowing whether or not it's a scam.

By your logic. A website that has a .com domain is safe. Only . wix is a scam site. Okay. .org? .net?

I'll have to hit up a moderator about that.

[Zunkey]

Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Originally posted by PCProphet:

By your logic. A website that has a .com domain is safe. Only . wix is a scam site. Okay. .org? .net?

I'll have to hit up a moderator about that.

Im detecting sarcasm to the point where my balls are dripping like an african rain forest...

[Mourningcrab3]

Originally posted by FlyingSixtySix:

Originally posted by PCProphet:

By your logic. A website that has a .com domain is safe. Only . wix is a scam site. Okay. .org? .net?

I'll have to hit up a moderator about that.

What? I can think of plenty of sites that don't use . wix that are scams. I bet you can too. So why is . wix the only domain blocked. Why not .org .gov, .com, or any of the other ones blocked

[Mourningcrab3]

Also, keep in mind this is coming from someone who does not own or use a . wix site.