shortened links

CheCazzo

Of that I have no doubt weeowens - it's more a case of looking like a bit of a great big know-nothing greenhorn!:rotfl::rotfl:

lilias

Do you have a link to the rule where it says that you are not allowed to post short links? I was looking for it the other day but couldn't find it.

brightonman123

depends I guess on how the link is coded on comp page..

maybe1

lilias wrote: »

Do you have a link to the rule where it says that you are not allowed to post short links? I was looking for it the other day but couldn't find it.

From forum rules

Why can't I use !!!!!!!, etc?
In the past sites such as !!!!!!!, !!!!!!!, Makeashortlink and others have been used to hide referral links, which we don't allow on the forum, so they've been banned.
If you want to shorten a link to post it on the forum, please use the following method:

• Type the text - eg, "MoneySavingExpert" - that you want to display instead of the link.
• Highlight the text with your mouse.
• Click the hyperlink image () at the top of the message.
• A pop-up will appear asking you to enter the link you want this text to link to. Enter the link, and click OK.
• Save your post and you'll see your link is clickable.

WeAreGhosts

weeowens wrote: »

Would you be referring to such as these ?

here

here.

those too, as well as the one i linked to earlier.
[ are those you have linked to allowed then? ]

weeowens

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

those too, as well as the one i linked to earlier.
[ are those you have linked to allowed then? ]

I think they are allowed,in the sense the MSE admin do not block them with a load of punctuation.Unless MSE admin has just not caught up with them as yet & we may see them blocked in the futire.

Convention on MSE Comps seems to indicate that we do not post via such as those that I quoted as they are not readily searchable.

One-Eye

I believe that gleam.io is the same as on.fb.me ; goo.gl ; tiny-url ; bit-ly ; snip-url etc. and is covered by the MSE rule

In the past sites such as (these) have been used to hide referral links, which we don't allow on the forum, so they've been banned.

As weeowens surmised, MSE admin has just not got around to formally banning them all individually - which would make them appear as !!!!!!! when you try to post them.

It is not just referral links that are the problem. A recent comp was posted and used a link of this type to go to a site that was banned itself. "Getting round" an MSE ban is naturally against the rules.

For example https://gleam.io/fb/fxz8w is not (yet) banned, but if you click on it, you go to https://www.facebook.com/somesuch. But "somesuch" is banned in its own right. If you tried to post the normal link in full you would get https://www.facebook.com/!!!!!!!!

mjm3346

One-Eye wrote: »

I believe that gleam.io is the same as on.fb.me ; goo.gl ; tiny-url ; bit-ly ; snip-url etc. and is covered by the MSE rule
As weeowens surmised, MSE admin has just not got around to formally banning them all individually - which would make them appear as !!!!!!! when you try to post them.

Sooner the better with gleam, got to be a very good chance some of the ones posted (by two "different" posters) are self-promotion for the entry platform.

weeowens

mjm3346 wrote: »

Sooner the better with gleam, got to be a very good chance some of the ones posted (by two "different" posters) are self-promotion for the entry platform.

Got to agree.
I was starting to suspect that they maybe gaining extra entries if people entered via the gleam links.Is that possible?

One-Eye

Have you noticed the edit on https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5023773

Last edited by MSE ForumTeam2; Yesterday at 11:46 PM. Reason: Only direct links allowed