The site seems to have a default limit of two links per post or comment.
âSorry, new users can only put 2 links in a post.â
While this makes sense as a default anti-spam measure, it has the potential to be quite obnoxious for someone asking for help or trying to answer a question.
I think the key word in that sentence is new. The limit will no doubt be lifted once the user has a small amount of reputation⊠In other words it is, as you obviously realised, an anti-spam measure.
Yes, as others have shared, this is a default anti-spam feature. We can tweak it to increase the number of links if we see itâs problematic for users.
Thanks for setting this up; perhaps you could make a very limited list (specifically *.openstreetmap.org) of exceptions that would always be allowed as described at Nofollow link settings - admins - Discourse Meta
Could a thread be opened to list the areas of local chapters that need to be allowed. Only stable and regularly used mapping tools or backgrounds.
But you can also add Mapillary domain for example.
Do we expect a freshly new user here will need to post a lot of links in their initial messages? Note that once you are a regular user you donât have this restriction.
Why not let the default Discourse settings and adjust if realy needed after some normal use of this forum ?
It is unusual to post several links in your first messages, and this anti-spam feature is quite useful. If you make it more permissive, you may have to deal with bots.
On OSM France forum we had a lot of bots on our old phpBB. Since we switch to Discourse, its default anti-bot/spam builtin features reduced this management to zero.
After one year, nobody complained with the limits and understood them.
In the forum, probably not. In the Q&A, we would really like people to put as many links as possible ! Maybe the whitelisting will be sufficient, if expanded to a few âsupportedâ services, like uMap intances, routers, overpass-turbo, etc.
This is a good example of a post that would have been better with 3 links. I think this shows that this issue is not solved yet, so Iâve removed the âsolutionâ mark on @nukeadorâs earlier answer, especially seeing how not even the âwwwâ subdomain of openstreetmap.org appears to be permitted at the moment.
I know itâs tedious and would prefer if Discourse allowed wildcards for subdomains. (Is there already an issue for that somewhere?) Iâd do the manual work myself, but I donât have those privileges.