OVirus53
01-31-2010, 08:43 AM
Last night was catastrophic for me!
Since I still live at home, I have to live with my parent's choice of ISP, which happens to block certain websites for a variety of reasons. That can be a good thing, since it weeds out a ton of viruses, but it can also be a horrendously bad thing at the same time. Here is my story:
I finished watching Ouran High School Host Club episode 15, and clicked the button to go to episode 16. Much to my surprise, instead of the friendly gray and green of OS, I see the block page from the ISP! It said OS was blocked because it was under the category of "porn"! I couldn't believe it. Especially since one of this site's primary rules is "keep it PG-13"! I thought it must've been a fluke, so I decided to go to the main page of OS, but recieved the same thing! OS was blocked from me! I checked back in 15 minutes, but the same was there. It was no use.
Horrified, I had nothing more I felt like doing than going to bed and sleeping. After an equally stressing and unforgiving day, I decided, "hey, what the heck, I'll check and see if it's unblocked" (which was unlikely) and... here I am miraculously typing this post!
I just wanted to take this time to let all of you at OS (members, administrators, all of you!) how thankful I am of you! This site really is my home away from home on the internet, and would be horrified if this event happened again! If it did, I'd have no choice but to wait until I moved out (which is my current, yet lofty goal because of how hard it is to get a job in my town) before I could return to OS, which... face it, is a horrifying idea!
THANK YOU OS FOR EXISTING! You make my day worthwhile even if I had a bad day up until I log in!
Since I still live at home, I have to live with my parent's choice of ISP, which happens to block certain websites for a variety of reasons. That can be a good thing, since it weeds out a ton of viruses, but it can also be a horrendously bad thing at the same time. Here is my story:
I finished watching Ouran High School Host Club episode 15, and clicked the button to go to episode 16. Much to my surprise, instead of the friendly gray and green of OS, I see the block page from the ISP! It said OS was blocked because it was under the category of "porn"! I couldn't believe it. Especially since one of this site's primary rules is "keep it PG-13"! I thought it must've been a fluke, so I decided to go to the main page of OS, but recieved the same thing! OS was blocked from me! I checked back in 15 minutes, but the same was there. It was no use.
Horrified, I had nothing more I felt like doing than going to bed and sleeping. After an equally stressing and unforgiving day, I decided, "hey, what the heck, I'll check and see if it's unblocked" (which was unlikely) and... here I am miraculously typing this post!
I just wanted to take this time to let all of you at OS (members, administrators, all of you!) how thankful I am of you! This site really is my home away from home on the internet, and would be horrified if this event happened again! If it did, I'd have no choice but to wait until I moved out (which is my current, yet lofty goal because of how hard it is to get a job in my town) before I could return to OS, which... face it, is a horrifying idea!
THANK YOU OS FOR EXISTING! You make my day worthwhile even if I had a bad day up until I log in!