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Originally Posted by schlubby
Interesting idea. Lately, I've been wondering if they can just make it so that the "Automatically parse links in text" checkbox isn't checked by default. I've unclicked that checkbox in this post, and it doesn't add links to "www" links, OR to "HTTP" or "HTTPS" links.
Examples:
www.google.com
http://www.google.com
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlbUBGIIBFg
I don't know how VBulletin works, but in other systems, it would be as simple as going to the correct template PHP file and changing this line:
<input name="parseurl" value="1" id="cb_parseurl" tabindex="1" checked="checked" type="checkbox">
to this
<input name="parseurl" value="1" id="cb_parseurl" tabindex="1" type="checkbox">
I agree, at this point it seems like it would be a lot easier to change something about the configuration than to have the mods have to change posts all the time. Sure, newbies might add links on purpose, but that might be a smaller problem than intermittently-contributing members forgetting, or people from non-English speaking countries not really understanding when they're told to stop.
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Since we're still having the hot links problem and maybe there's some chance Admin will show up and see this sometime, I thought I'd re-up this: I really think it might be a one-line fix to a template somewhere, making the "Automatically parse links in text" checkbox be turned off by default. See above. So much annoyance
for the mods as well as all the posters could be solved so easily. I think. It's so simple it's certainly worth a try!
I think I sent Admin a PM about this years ago but I might have it mixed up with the PM quota problem and I'm not completely sure because I keep having to delete my PMs.
I appreciate you all though! I know it's not easy and there's no pay for almost anyone involved.
