Oh My Good Lord. You're doing random links from my posts!!!!!?!

[EdMcDunnough]

I just wrote something about tyres here and it turned my word 'e b a y' into a LINK!?!

WTF? I didn't do that! Is this going to turn into one of those forums where every other word is a link to some shite you never wanted to advertise look at in the first place?

What is going on???????

it's some spyware you've downloaded... go into add/remove programs and get rid of whatever it is

Thanks Lubey - but it's not. I've just clocked another thread in Site stuff about automatic links and apprently it's a deliberate revenue thing from MNHQ

How crap is that

I'll add my voice to that. I rarely disagree with what you do MNHQ but I really don't like that at all. If I want to promote a brand (and I think Internet promotion works in some part by the number of links created?) then I'll do it off my own back, not by having it done for me. Will it also work if large numbers of MNers are complaining about a company? Surely then the company will get a google boost when they don't deserve one?

In my instance it was 'John Lewis' that turned into a link when I didn't want it too. Can also be confusing for people reading the posts as links usually lead somewhere the poster wants the reader to go.

Right I'm going to try

eBay

How's that?

*too = to

eBay

Still nothing?

Aha

There is a tick box 'convert links automatically'

Untick it, problem solved

Oh no that's not the answer

Thats so shit

Testing:

Amazon eBay greggs tesco boden

Aaaaaargh link to boden too!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness i've seen this thread. I mentioned B oden in a thread and it became a link! I was driving myself crazy trying to work out when I'd done that. I will untick!

Im appalled if this really is something MN think is an okay thing to do.

My turn to have a go.

eBay
Amazon

eBay
Amazon
Boden

I don't think so, fromheretoeternity. The tick box is just a labour-saving device for links you want to create. Unchecking it doesn't prevent MNHQ from generating the links that they want to create for revenue purposes.

I saw that on another thread with the word wonga

I haven't spotted any of these. And I can't click on Boden in the fromheretomaternity 21:12 posts. Can you guys? Maybe it's your Internet software?

oooh look it's done it to me now!

ohh, the wonga one has happened!

Mad mad mad

Hang on though - I don't have it ticked

Boden

They're coming and going for me

and no link

Boden

wonga

Boden

seems a bit random doesn't it.

I don't have anything checked - I've been here nearly 6 years and can do links myself quite quickly if I want to.

It's when I don't want to that it bothers me.

This is shite, sorry MNHQ but it really is. please at least can we have an opt out?

Weirdly, every time I refresh this page the links in other people's posts come and go.

Me too Pru