NationStates Jolt Archive

Hi,

just a suggestion, please forgive me if this has been suggested before or there is some reason why it would be impossible. But, wouldn't it be nice if the forums, that a lot of the regions have, were hyperlinks. Preferably opening up in a new window. Would save on cutting and pasting ( waste of glue AND my scissors are rusty ;) )

All the best,

Edderkopp

The NationStates admin don't allow it for their reasons and I don't think they're about to change it.

Yes, I thought that it wasn't on. As it's so obvious, it'd have been done by now. :unhappy:

The NationStates admin don't allow it for their reasons and I don't think they're about to change it.
I guess they were worried about spamming - create thousands of regions with links to your site, and get loads of pagerank. Of course, now that the search engines recognise rel="nofollow", NS could just add that to any user-supplied links, and there wouldn't be any benefit from spamming. Unless the admins were thinking of something else?

Preferably opening up in a new window.
Telling links to open in a new window is evil. If users want a new window, they can right-click on a link and tell their browser to open it in a new windows. Links that open in new windows are really annoying for people that want them to open in the same window (unless you use a nice browser like Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com) which you can tell to redirect links).

I guess they were worried about spamming - create thousands of regions with links to your site, and get loads of pagerank. Of course, now that the search engines recognise rel="nofollow", NS could just add that to any user-supplied links, and there wouldn't be any benefit from spamming. Unless the admins were thinking of something else?
I think more it was all the myriad of possibilities of bad sites that people would think to link to *instead* of their forums. It just has too much potential for abuse.