[wp-forums] Proposal: No URL shorteners?

[Peter Westwood]

On 3 Jan 2011, at 12:16, Mika A Epstein wrote:

> Kind of. 
> 
> There have been one or two SEO "experts" using them which strikes me as both counter intuitive and possibly misleading. Mind you I think said expert (last nights) is a daft idiot, but it got me thinking of all the times I'd seen shortened links, and the uselessness there of in a place where we have the ability to use basic HTML to say <a href=this is a long link>read this about Foobar</a>.
> 
> I have caught a couple spammers using it, outside of the ones caught by Akismet, and I'm starting to see more and more on blogs. The natural progression is, of course, forums.
> 
> Not a ban, but a "You know, we would really rather you just put the ding dang URL up, folks, so people know what they're getting into." Honesty on a support forum :)

Maybe we should create a bbPress plugin which auto expands the urls or shows the actual target in a tooltip?

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