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I still think an even better path to success is to allow entirely disabling linking for non-admins. Google no longer treats "nofollow" as strongly as it used t
by coder543 6y ago
I still think an even better path to success is to allow entirely disabling linking for non-admins.
Google no longer treats "nofollow" as strongly as it used to: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-new-ways-to-identify.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/09/evolving-nofollow-...
- dnsmichi 6y agoThanks for sharing, I have added it to the issue, maybe you want to join the discussion there :) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273618#note_438625502 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273618#note_43... Just so that I can follow - URLs posted by non-admins should not render as HTML URLs at all? Wouldn't that be quite limiting for OSS project members for example?
- coder543 6y agoMy opinion on the topic isn't definitive by any means, but I think a lot of projects would do just fine without allowing arbitrary hyperlinks to be added by non-admins. I think being able to link to related issues and link into the code is still important, for example. It's certainly a trade off, but spammers want it to be rendered as a link.