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by csdreamer7 2054 days ago
Or a nofollow option (add rel=nofollow)
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dnsmichi 2054 days ago
That's a great idea. We have discussed ways of getting a trust level, and enable this for specific groups. Discourse uses the same system for preventing spam. "Good" bots detect the rel=nofollow and do not come back.

See my proposal here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14156#note_258...

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dnsmichi 2053 days ago
Iterating on my original thought, here is a smaller feature request for self-hosted GitLab instances. This can help GitLab.com too: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273618
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coder543 2053 days 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-...

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dnsmichi 2053 days ago
Thanks 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_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?

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coder543 2053 days ago
My 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.

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