URL post-suggestion

[ldc]

I did a bad thing today it seems... forgot to put a _ before 2 urls.. My bad..

Just an idea since ppl can forget stuff like this, why not add a word-replacement "http colon slash slash" (don't wanna get warned again that does not start with this page url so every time someone would post an external link it would automatically add a _ before the url? Another thing could be to add a redirection page that would ask the user if they want to visit that specific page?

Just an idea..

 

[Analoguesat]

Disabling the http code totally would break our referral links. When someone types the word Sky or Ebay (and a couple of others) it turns into a referral link and the forum earns some money if folks use our links to sign up.

 

[ldc]

Just a thought for the user-posts, ie replacing what the user typed, not the word->url-replacement and ofcourse have overrides so some links are allowed (like to another post in the forum maybe)

 

[Topper]

Thanks for your suggestion

You are not the first nor will you be the last that did not read the rules, which is why we have a warning system to highlight the fact to you, from now on you know we do not allow live links.