Links in posts to mumsnet site sections

Thank god I can't see this on the app, I would hate it. Don't see many ads on here either.

I've seen it on a thread about trousers too - except ladies trousers in a thread about primary uniform.....

Please, please please make them look different to links the poster has actually put in - and maybe consider only putting the link on every fifth mention in a thread or similar.

It’s very distracting.

I was reading a thread where washing machine was mentioned a few times. The sudden blue text made it distracting to read.

It’s naff and cheap. Stop it.

Just another poster chiming in to say that these links are intrusive, annoying and affecting my enjoyment of the site. Please take them down @MNHQ

It should be disabled on certain boards.

And it needs to be in a different colour to hyperlinks posted by forum members, to make it clear that it's a Mumsnet link.

(But personally, I'd prefer not to have them at all.)

I can’t see this generating much more income though. Aren’t most people savvy enough to click those links because they look so much like a common virus?

They're indistinguishable from a normal link.

Could you at least do something about that?

Also, yes, surely testing was done and somebody somewhere surely said 'what about sensitive subjects?" Maybe we shouldn't have this enabled on things like miscarriage/depression/SEN etc where it could be wholly inappropriate

I suspect MNHQ won't remove this as they are trying to create more revenue, but I'd be very grateful if they would change the colour of automatic links so that they can be distinguished from links that users create...

This is ridiculous. Who is going to click a link like that on purpose and read it. MN isn't Wikipedia fgs. All you get is a thread with one key word linked all the way through and have to play "dodge the link" when scrolling.

I've also seen some very insensitive ones too.

I thought this had been implemented in the past and then removed as it was intrusive and inappropriate.

But multivac can you reverse entropy?

The links are bloody. annoying because they are indistinguishable from genuine links embedded by posters. So a link which looks like part of the original post is actually spam.

At least make them distinctive and for goodness sake remove the tasteless and innapropriate links (flushing the CDN can be forced, and selectively - its 2019)

Nice to see a fellow Asimov fan!

Nothing. Damn.

There you go - it's happened again.

I wonder what would happen if I type toilets or cat food ...

No. I don't want this.

I've already asked MNHQ to take down a post of mine this evening. All I did was type the words lunch boxes on a random thread on which re-using things was being discussed and a hyperlink appeared after I hit post.

I really really don't want links to things appearing in my posts unless I put them there myself!!

Nice name Multivac

Thank you; I was surprised it wasn't taken

This reminds me of adware that infects a user's browser and turns keywords on websites they view into links

This x100. It’s fucking awful MNHQ.

If you’re that desperate for people to read the articles write some decent ones.

And WHAT are you trying to tell us about a day in the life of MNHQ, MNHQ?

OK, a post in a thread I'm reading has managed to link the phrase "have a wank" to this article in the Metro.

Do I win the thread?

It’s so so irritating.

Every word we type now has the potential to be overtly monetised. Not cool MN, not cool at all.

I hate this because it looks like the poster had chosen to link to it. It’s really intrusive. I’ve stopped using other sites because of it.
I know mumsnet is a commercial site at the end of the day but without the users they wouldn’t be anywhere - I think this is intrusive and feels a bit sly to be honest. At least give us the option to turn it off in our settings or something. It distracts from the threads.

This reminds me of adware that infects a user's browser and turns keywords on websites they view into links. This wll increase the advertising revenue for mumsnet and the user will just have to put up with it.

The most annoying thing is there's no way to tell if the link was automatically added or not. So I click a link thinking the poster wants us to see a picture of the specific lunchbox she has I'm mind, but it's just a mumsnet list of lunchbox with handy amazon links so they get a cut of the profit.

Yes, please remove!