Broken link in front page headline forum post

[RedTomato]

The current leading story is "Steve Jobs at Apple Town Hall Meeting on Google, Adobe, Next iPhone, 2010 Macs and More". Click to 'read more' and get taken to

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/857406/

and now if you want to see what the Wired article says, clicking on the Wired linky takes you to

www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-********-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/

which is clearly broken. You have to go back to the MR front page to get the original unbroken link. Obviously a vBulletin auto-censorship problem, but is it really necessary to censor the inside of HTML web anchors?

 

[Eraserhead]

Obviously a vBulletin auto-censorship problem, but is it really necessary to censor the inside of HTML web anchors?

Quite, I completely agree.

 

[RedTomato]

Quite, I completely agree.

You agree HTML code should be censored? That's not what you said last summer in the park after drinking 8 pints 😀

 

[robert05au]

I can also see the strange page instead of the normal front page which was there a few hours ago for me.

I wonder if someone has had a little hacking fun of some kind.

 

[xUKHCx]

Obviously a vBulletin auto-censorship problem, but is it really necessary to censor the inside of HTML web anchors?

In short, yes.

In long, the auto censor is used to block profanity as well as spam/dangerous urls. So yes.

Occansionally this poses a problem like the example above but it is possible to manage the urls so that go to the correct location.

 

[WildCowboy]

FYI, I just changed the link in the post related to the front page story to point a bit.ly link-shortened version of the Wired URL that avoids the forum profanity filter.

We don't have an easy way to make the forum profanity filter ignore URLs.

 

[rdowns]

Thank god MacRumors censors. We have to think of the children. 🙄

 

[MacNut]

Thank god MacRumors censors. We have to think of the children. 🙄

This is America after all, naughty words are evil.

 

[RedTomato]

FYI, I just changed the link in the post related to the front page story to point a bit.ly link-shortened version of the Wired URL that avoids the forum profanity filter.

Dr Q's gonna be on you now. "Don't circumvent the MR profanity filters!" 😀

 

[rdowns]

Dr Q's gonna be on you now. "Don't circumvent the MR profanity filters!" 😀

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