I hate school....

[coreystranick]

They block the sites because it slows the server down. My school does it to. And when you have over eight hundred kids on a game site it slows the server. Like my school has a main website, and it loads extremely slow if anyone is playing games. So our school tech guys get relaly pissed. My school records what sites you visit because you sign in with your school id number. They block a website after a few hundred kids get on it. Like a site called agames.com has yet to be blocked. But will be soon.

[Dragonium]

To be fair they're blocked so that you don't waste your education time on games and videos and pointless crap, so that you don't fail your exams, get no qualifications, and spend the rest of your life being a tramp living on benefits.

Just saying.

[Osmose]

Slows the school server down? That's complete bullshit.

The "server" is, at best, simply on the routing path for your connection and passes the data through, although in actuality it's not the server itself but a network switch somewhere in the school's server room.

Consider what happens when you actually go to a website to play a flash game. Your computer requests the page, gets the page, sees that there's an embedded flash file, and asks for that from the server (As it does with images and other embedded content). It get's the flash file, loads all of this data into a temporary storage place on your computer, and runs it. All the weight and processing power that the flash file uses are on your own computer.

The server does nothing more than pass along data and check to make sure what you're accessing is allowed within it's policy. So unless your school is using a single PC that routes everything itself (Which it doesn't, otherwise they wouldn't have gone ahead and gotten PCs for students anyway) playing games on the internet does just as little damage to the server as viewing the web in general does.

[Ben]

So basically theyve done this so that you cant post things like this, in places like this. Go back to your school work, LOL

[Dragonium]

Fascists.

Still, get back to work.

[Razor]

That reminds me; when I was in high school, they ended up blocking a lot of stuff because half way through the year we managed to use THE ENTIRE YEAR'S internet allowance.
Good stuff, that.

[Cosmos]

Well that's the kids damn fault. They spend hours on myspace instead of doing their work. But then again, they probably shouldn't be using the computer anyways. And also, how they do it is... they block keywords. Like if a site has the words game, sex or **** on it then they're automatically blocked. They also found out about proxy sites because kids have big *** mouths, and go about talking about these things in front of kids who have bigger mouths or staff. Like we had boredatschool.net for like six months before they blocked it.

[Archem]

I remember this crap. There were twelve new proxy sites discovered each week, and eleven of them were blocked the week after they started getting used. Like a revolving password to the internets. It was either that, or play some Halo (which was epic awesome when some douche didn't have a server where the guns were modded for infinite ammo, no reloads, and instant kill everything on screen. That guy just sat and held down the shoot button to ruin our fun).

Hey, it's their fault that I could breeze through all the classwork in twenty minutes. Sometimes, I didn't even do the work. It's not like I couldn't make up for a few missing assignments in an A or B class.

[coreystranick]

This sucks, I discoverd at school today, that after i had posted my comment my school blocked charas. What a bore. I am a senior and I have two days left of school, why can't i have fun.

[lilsniffs3]

Originally posted by Midnight
Well that's the kids damn fault. They spend hours on myspace instead of doing their work. But then again, they probably shouldn't be using the computer anyways. And also, how they do it is... they block keywords. Like if a site has the words game, sex or **** on it then they're automatically blocked. They also found out about proxy sites because kids have big *** mouths, and go about talking about these things in front of kids who have bigger mouths or staff. Like we had boredatschool.net for like six months before they blocked it.

Well, I kinda' agree with you, BUT:

I'm 10 years old, only about 5 people in our whole school has a MySpace.

Plus, I was thinking that too, about keywords, but, NewGrounds, MCleoudgaming, this site, aren't blocked, and I really am the only kid who knows what a proxy is, in our whole school district, plus, Wikipedia, that IS NOT BLOCKED, although I won't search it, Wikipedia will have the pages "Sex" "Fuk," and our school, only let's us use computers either during recess when raining, technology class, or free time. That obviously won't bother us from our tests. Slack-Time is the only site we use now. All everybody does is play "Low" loud.

[ZeroKirbyX]

You're ten?

Mind your ****ing mouth.

[Archem]

Seriously. Tenly-fellah.

[HobomasterXXX]

Well, at least your school doesn't block GOOGLE. >.>

[Cosmos]

Why would they block Wiki? Kids use that to actually DO work, And LOL at the google comment! XD

[lilsniffs3]

Originally posted by dudewheresmymount
Well, at least your school doesn't block GOOGLE. >.>

WTF?!?!?!?

Originally posted by Midnight
Why would they block Wiki? Kids use that to actually DO work,

If kids actually used Wikipedia, I wouldn't have to tell everybody how to spell Wikipedia.