[wp-forums] Good solution?

[Jackie McBride]

I suppose another solution is an url shortener, though those come
w/their own perils. When I blog about security issues & don't want my
visitor to click a likely malware-infested link, I just put
httx://domain.tld

Giving a site url really does help in a lot of cases, but I also
understand folks not wanting their requests for support traffic
regarding their websites to be exposed to search engines . Maybe there
should be some sort of script that just changes links to the format I
gave above automagically. Serp's won't see those as links, it'll
provide us w/the info we need, & it'll make the ops happy knowing the
first ranking for their website in Google isn't going to be a trouble
ticket.

Just a thought. Have a good day, all.

On 6/29/15, Keith J. Messinger <keithmessinger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Usually when I ask someone to post a link I try to remember to ask them to
> post it in a "dot" format. This person posted the link without someone
> asking for it. I think we should review our policy about links. I am not
> sure leaving one up for continuity is valid especially after so many end up
> as 404's over the years. Maybe they should expire after 1 or 2 years if
> someone requests it.
>
> On June 29, 2015, at 7:51 PM, Mark Ratledge <mark at markratledge.com> wrote:
>
> Cool, thanks. I was just going to ignore the OP's whining - because I didn't
> want to encourage future editing whines - until kmessinger responded, and
> it's OK how he pitched in.
> -- mark
>
> On Jun 29, 2015, at 8:34 PM, Jan Dembowski wrote:
>
>> I closed the topic and I'm fine with the small edit too. ;)
>>
>> I really don't think anyone should get into the habit of editing posts in
>> the forums. Unless it's extreme as in threats of violence, stalking, etc.
>> (and that's happened and the topics were edited or deleted) then the
>> topics shouldn't be edited. It tends to lead other forum users to "But you
>> did it for X, Y and Z from 6 years ago!" and that's just a waste of time.
>>
>> Search engine results are never an extreme case.
>>
>>> Mark Ratledge <mailto:mark at markratledge.com>
>>> Monday, June 29, 2015 10:28 PM
>>> I know, I should be using Slack :) But until then, was this a good
>>> solution for someone complaining about a site URL they posted?
>>> https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deleting-url?replies=6
>>>
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