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Depressing, hopefully it gets remedied.

Yet another reason to share your knowledge on a blog you control and not give your invaluable content over to someone else’s business.

Do these kids of communities all become just crowdsourced content farms in the end?

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The problem with personal blogs is that they are likely to get labeled as a “personal” site and blocked by some stupid corporate filter.

How common is this?

At the smaller companies I've worked for the only filtering was of the big, distracting sites like Facebook.

At one of the large companies I've worked before, the corporate filter barred access to https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html because it was a hacking website. Which it cleverly determined, you've guessed it, by checking the URL and seeing it had "hack" in there. Everything with "hack" in the URL was banned.

Pretty sure all those JavaScript ninja hackers they'd hired were a little baffled that they hire hackers but don't let them view nasty hacker pages...

I also take it that this company didn't have any offices in essex?

Scunthorpe is a common example for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

The standard joke is "Scunthorpe, Arsenal, and Manchester fucking United."

I run our corporate proxy and security made the call to block ‘personal’ sites since it was basically the Wild West of content...

I worked a job where the web filter blocked the majority of blogging platforms as "social media."

an idea - I write an answer on SO - and they auto populate my blog (or the other way round with some javascript hook or whatever) - as long as mine says "rel:cananoical" this is something i would look at seriously ?

Then again Inknow a number of people who have the SO scores on their CVs