Timeline for What to do when a post contains a "suspicious" link (possibly with copyrighted material)?
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| Nov 1, 2018 at 17:18 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | File-sharing means that files are uploaded by users, with little or no curation from the host. This is completely false for Library Genesis: even though users can upload texts, these submissions constitute only a small fraction of all texts in the library, and these submissions are still thoroughly vetted and processed. The overwhelming majority of all texts, however, is not contributed in this manner. | |
| Nov 1, 2018 at 17:13 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | "I'm not sure under what technical definition it is not a site": Library Genesis is a library, i.e., a collection of files with books and other texts. This library is distributed through various means: torrents, HTTP, etc. One of these means is a web site, but this doesn't mean that the library itself is a site. | |
| Nov 1, 2018 at 16:11 | comment | added | LSpice | @DmitriPavlov, dodginess is in the eye of the beholder, but I was responding to a question about "suspicious" links, with the target left unidentified. For the LibGen example, I'm not sure under what technical definition it is not a site, and I don't know what it means to say LibGen is "not file-sharing". (I don't disagree; I literally don't know what that means. LibGen certainly offers download links to files. Maybe they don't host them themselves, and that is your point?) | |
| Nov 1, 2018 at 16:03 | comment | added | Dmitri Pavlov | What "dodgy file-sharing sites" do you have in mind? The deletion of links that just began currently seems to affect mostly Library Genesis, which is not dodgy, not file-sharing, and not a site. | |
| Oct 31, 2018 at 17:39 | history | answered | LSpice | CC BY-SA 4.0 |