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pg on March 1, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask PG: What is the list of banned sites and why a...

Because in those urls the account is a subdomain, so for them a site can be defined as e.g. x.wordpress.com. I don't want to get into representing sites as regular expressions if I can avoid it.

apgwoz on March 1, 2009 [–]

Yes. I realized that was the case. Maybe vox.com didn't have subdomains at the time you banned it, but it does now.

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