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  • 10/15/2013 at 11:41 pm #53357
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    I’m not going to lie. I’m terrible with computers. When it comes to computers I’m like a little kid who needs their hand held when their crossing the street.

    Some people here recommended that I get TOR but I just don’t know what it does completely or how it works. A total of three different people use the computer that I use so I don’t want to download anything that flips everything upside down.

    So, can anyone help me out with understanding TOR better?

    [Neither do I, I’ll read the topic. Sys Op]

    10/16/2013 at 12:43 am #53361
    Secret Squirrel
    Participant

    Watch the videos on this channel.

    http://www.youtube.com/user/TheTorProject/videos

    Sometimes Youtube hides the comments we submit from everyone else on the internet. The only way to be sure that our comments are visible to everyone else is to check using Tor.

    10/17/2013 at 11:39 am #53460
    Jason
    Participant

    White Dude
    When I post on Youtube, I use two sources to copy mini-mantras from: Bugs Buddy and mini-mantras from this website. I never recopy/resubmit the same mantras from Bugs Buddy. I always use different ones each time I post. After I use a significant number of mini-mantras from Bugs Buddy, I won’t use Bugs Buddy again until the next day. That completes my first round of Youtube posting for each day.
    If I do a second round of posting on Youtube, I’ll copy mini-mantras from this website, Bob’s site. Like Bugs Buddy, I don’t recopy/resubmit mantras from this site either. I always use a different mantra each time I post. Although technically I’m beginning to wonder if you can use the same mantra again from this website and not have your comments marked as spam on Youtube. He has had enormous success with copying and pasting the same mantra from this website without those comments getting marked as spam on Youtube. On Bob’s site, I’ve been copying mini-mantras from the “Mini-Mantas I” and “Mini-Mantras II” list. So if he is successful with copying and pasting from this website the same mantra over again without those comments getting marked as spam, I’m beginning to think perhaps the same holds true regarding the mini-mantras in those “Mini-Mantas I” and “Mini-Mantras II”threads. I eventually plan on incorporating his list of mantras into my daily regimen. He has created an absolutely spectacular and stellar list. I can’t wait to start using his mantras too.
    I’ve actually not yet downloaded TOR and am unfamiliar with its operations as of now.
    I hope that all made some sense. I’m not the best at explaining the logistics of things. Thankfully he can!


    @Jason     & Fred – I just copy my minis >from< the minis pro list and paste in directly to youtube without any copy/paste activity in between. Two other components of the spam filter I’ve found are a speed restriction (if you post to quickly on too many videos your I.P address with be spammed marked for awhile) and also if too many of your comments get manually marked as spam your I.P address gets spam locked for awhile as well.
    I downloaded the tor from this site
    https://www.torproject.org/
    I check every single comment I post on youtube with the Tor. I am in the know 100% of the time whether or not I am getting spam filtered. (unless the video is not available in the Country I.P address of the Tor).
    Please ask me any questions or share any other observations about the spam filter. I enjoy figuring it out, I think I’ve got a solid grip on it now. I always get a ton of reply comments now.

    10/18/2013 at 1:00 am #53530
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thanks, you guys. 🙂

    But how do you know your comments are getting through?

    I didn’t see anything like that described on Tor’s website. I also saw something that made it sound like the software prevents you from “spamming.” That’s pretty much what we do so how do you get around that?

    10/18/2013 at 2:32 am #53531
    Jason
    Participant

    If you happen to have a smart phone, you can surf over and check it that way. It has been reliable for me.

    I have been able to post a lot without using TOR, by cycling through different Minis. I just go through the Bugs Buddy and grab a different one each time. So, if I post 15, and they are all different, they almost always All go through.

    10/18/2013 at 3:09 am #53533
    -scythian-
    Participant

    @AnotherOne, I’m not very computer literate either but I’ll try to explain. I have Windows. When you download Tor (from what I recall you go to the Tor website, click download, then click run), it WON’T appear as an icon on your desktop, so you go to the ‘Start’ menu & type the word ‘Tor’ and you’ll see ‘Start Tor Browser’, click on that & a Tor Browser page will come up.

    So for example if you’re on YouTube from a different browser such as Firefox or whatever page you use to access this site, after you’ve posted your Mini Mantra, copy the URL address/link from the address bar, then paste it to the address bar on the Tor browser, then obviously click the arrow to the right so that page appears and just check to see if your comment appears on that Tor page as it does from the page you originally posted it on. That’s the best way I can explain it, I hope I got the computer language correct.

    10/19/2013 at 11:33 pm #53716
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Thanks again, Everybody. 🙂

    I won’t download TOR just yet. I’ll just check quickly with my IPOD Touch if the talking points got through. I’ll start posting a different Mini on each post and see how that works out.

    10/20/2013 at 12:27 am #53718
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Tor works as a Proxy

    In simple terms – everyone on the internet is assigned an address (IP address)

    Sometimes you might need to use a DIFFERENT IP address, these are called PROXY addresses.

    It’s essentially like having a HOME ADDRESS and a PO BOX (Proxy).

    TOR works as a PROXY, which gives you another IP Address to work from.

    If you post a comment, it might APPEAR to be visible to the world, but in reality it might ACTUALLY be visible to ONLY your IP address.

    So you check with a DIFFERENT IP using TOR, to see if it is visible to the outside world.

    You can do this without TOR as well, there are plenty of anonymous browsers on the net to check your youtube comments. TOR is something that people normally use for more complex anonymity issues.

    10/20/2013 at 1:19 am #53723
    Sys Op
    Keymaster

    Most Content Management Systems (blogs, membership sites, forums, message boards, etc.) have the capability of clicking a button on a comment made by someone considered to be a pain in the neck, or a spammer, or nuts, or for whatever reason they want–then block it from view of anyone else but the author. They can use IP address, username, member ID or whatever their site uses to identify a particular person. So if an IP address has been Spam or Nut Job masked, only that IP address will see it and believe all is well and that everyone else sees it lined up there with the other comments/replies. All the best forum software has that capability.

    I’ve not heard how many times a post must be marked as Spam before the auto-software kicks in and hides those posts on YouTube. Spammers don’t know it’s being done because they see it and move on. I’ve only used it myself on one site (never here).

    Okay, LL, TOR is just another browser that uses its own IP range per login region to send your URL request on, it sounds like.

    10/20/2013 at 11:37 am #53731
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    SysOp – I was trying to explain Tor in simple terms.

    But Tor is not it’s own IP Range, Tor consists of people volunteering their IP Addresses as exit nodes.

    Which is a bit of a downside of TOR, random people can volunteer as exit nodes, then run packet capturing software like wireshark on their machine – which means username/passwords are often compromised thru TOR

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