XF 1.1 Disable links?

[lazer]

Hi all

Is there a way to disable all links posted by a particular usergroup in a particular node or nodes? Remove the automatic parsing of links or replace them with something else?

We have a forum where members post anti-virus logs and by nature of the content, these sometimes include links to "dodgy" sites.

Cheers

 

[Amaury]

Not without a resource.

 

[lazer]

Darn it... I can't see anything like that.

 

[Amaury]

Darn it... I can't see anything like that.

Alternatively, you could have your members type something like www(.)youtube(.)com instead of www.youtube.com so it doesn't turn into a link.

 

[lazer]

Yes, thanks. We considered that but in that forum all members are noobs and they simply wouldn't comply.

 

[Paul B]

Why do you want to disable them?
All links other than those posted by staff are nofollow anyway.

You could try asking your users to use the code or plain tags.

 

[lazer]

Thanks Brogan. Unfortunately, this is an Adsense ToS issue, so I'm not sure the nofollow rule works. Indeed, I'm not even sure that links in /code boxes would comply. We try and get all members to post the logs as attachments but they go back for years and for years they were just pasting them into threads.

 

[Paul B]

Disable AdSense in that forum using a conditional statement.

 

[lazer]

I have also considered that, thanks Brogan. Unfortunately, we use Shawn's DP Ads plugin and as we haven't (can't yet) upgraded to 1.2, we can't use the latest version of the addon.

A right pickle, you might say...

 

[Paul B]

Make the forum available to logged in members only.