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Mad Poster
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#1 Old 6th Nov 2019 at 8:53 PM
Default Pinterest Blocking MTS for Spam?
I use Pinterest to pin a few things to private and public boards including sims content. Whenever I've tried for the past week to pin things, there seems to be a problem where Pinterest is blocking MTS links on account of spam. Does any moderator know about this? Is there a way to contact Pinterest and get their attention?



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This account is mostly used by my sons to download CC now, if you see me active, it's probably just them!
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#2 Old 7th Nov 2019 at 9:37 AM
Hi there!

Might be a weird question, but do you enter the site with www or without? I think partially for the spam warning, I think that's partially because the site runs mostly on http rather than https.
Mad Poster
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#3 Old 10th Nov 2019 at 6:29 AM
It doesn't matter if it's www or not. It blocks it no matter what for me.


Angie/DS | Baby Sterling - 24/2/2014
This account is mostly used by my sons to download CC now, if you see me active, it's probably just them!
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#4 Old 17th Nov 2019 at 4:07 AM
I noticed this problem as well. I tried contacting pinterest about it and they said:
Quote:
We blocked this website because It violates our Spam Policy. We consider spam to be any unsolicited or unauthorized material that's promotional, commercial, fraudulent, false, deceptive or misleading. It's important for us to block this type of content because it results in negative experiences for users. Unfortunately, we won't be removing this website from our block list.

You can find out more about our Acceptable Use Policy here.

I tried responding to that email saying modthesims.info doesn't fit that description but I suspect no one actually reads direct emails back, just messages sent with the contact form. Perhaps if some more people used the contact form to report this someone will actually properly look into it and realize pinterest's mistake? Using some of the language from the email above to point out that modthesims.info isn't spam might be more persuasive as well.

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Virtual gardener
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#5 Old 23rd Nov 2019 at 12:18 PM
Technically it makes sense why they'd say that it isn't a safe site, according to their guidelines:

Quote:
Don't link to websites that are unsafe, deceptive, untrustworthy, unoriginal, or that facilitate or encourage spam. Websites should have original content that adds unique value for Pinners.

(See source here: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/community-guidelines )

Now, most areas on the site are secure and safe. (Like this thread, if you view it as an https rather than http site: https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=634775 ). However, because the thumbnails on the site come from an entirely "different" site, (Thumbs.modthesims.info) Google or any other browser will say this:



Which is what makes the download browser page and the download page itself unsafe. So, the only way to fix this would be making it so that the images would have the same link as, well, as if you were browsing the site normally (So without the "thumbs." in front of the image link source). Which... is not an easy task. Although only Tash could make the final decision on that part.

Hope this clears things up a little! The only way I personally noticed I was able to pin a download was by right-clicking on an image on the download page, copy for example this link: https://thumbs.modthesims2.com/img/...sySimOption.jpg

And paste it in a Pinterest board.
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