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An0therRand0mC0der
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

This could probably solve the problem of advertising.
8bitrkt
Scratcher
500+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

An0therRand0mC0der wrote:

This could probably solve the problem of advertising.
This would be a huge help in advertising, but I do have 1 question, If link sharing was OFF and I put a link in, would it act like it flagged the filterbot*? or would it just not be a hyper link, but just a link that can get copied,

*what would flag the Filterbot? If I had to guess it would be the Https:
An0therRand0mC0der
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

8bitrkt wrote:

An0therRand0mC0der wrote:

This could probably solve the problem of advertising.
This would be a huge help in advertising, but I do have 1 question, If link sharing was OFF and I put a link in, would it act like it flagged the filterbot*? or would it just not be a hyper link, but just a link that can get copied,

*what would flag the Filterbot? If I had to guess it would be the Https:
It could be like the “Swear word detected” for project titles and descriptions, and it would flag whatever would turn into a hyperlink
(like this: https://scratch.mit.edu/, when it's blue)
musicROCKS013
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

Like, you wouldn't get muted, but maybe it would get converted to a “*” when you try to post the comment.
op456
Scratcher
100+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

Hm, maybe? But I think advertising would still exist. A commenter who was advertising could instead just say "Hey Please Check Out My Project '. I think eventually this would become the new way of advertising assuming this was enabled, thus I can't support this as it sort of just pushes the problem aside.
Zydrolic
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

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EngineerRunner
Scratcher
1000+ posts

Option to disable/enable links in the comments section in projects

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