Help! 'Poly counts as 'games'

[DrSpike]

Noooooo, my worst nightmare. Today in my lunch break I fired up 'Poly to take a peek, and it said "this site is restricted, as it falls under the category of games".

From what I recall from previous threads people have suggested using a proxy to connect to 'Poly. Could someone expound upon this please.

Hopefully I wont have to go and beg to the computer geeks.

[Nikolai]

But, my dear Spikie, of course it is a game! Forum game, anyone...?

[Ljube]

You have censorship at work doc?

Too bad. Better find a more liberal employer. Like mine.

These days I only do poly at work. Around the clock

[Jamski]

I get this too at my new "job"

I guess 'poly is listed as a games site in some way. Can't it be reclassified as "News and current affairs", foxing search engines, but delighting those of us who work!

-Jam

[DrSpike]

So no one has any idea how this proxy workaround works?

[Kassiopeia]

What browser are you using? Firefox? (I can only tell you how to do it on Firefox)

Edit: In any case, go to http://www.openproxies.com/, write down a random address and port. Go to Tools->Options->General->Connection Settings. Manual proxy configuration. Plot in the address and port you picked up earlier, and see if it works now. If it doesn't, try a different proxy. Open and free ones tend to be sluggish, though.

It depends on what sort of filter they are using, this helps if a router is broken down and preventing any connections whatsoever, but if the filter is somehow content sensitive (i.e. still realizes that you are browsing Poly, just through a different route) you may be out of luck.

[Dis]

I'm bitter and jealous.

all you people can spend all day posting at poly. I don't have access to a computer at work, nor the time to post. I stay busy all day running around the place fixing things.

[Flip McWho]

I'm the same as Dissident, except I'm running around filling up veges and fruit, when I'm not at uni.

[PLATO]

There are back door ways in that avoid this. Try going directly into a forum rather than through the front page.

[Jon Shafer]

I sit around here or do homework while working...

[Skanky Burns]

/me simply points and laughs

[Nikolai]

*Nikolai slaps Skanky for being unpolite*

[Adagio]

/me slaps Nikolai for not using the me tag correct

[Nikolai]

Using the what?

[Adagio]

Try writing '/me' instead of * Nikolai