Forum Discussion
Problem inserting links
Not seen this before, error when inserting a link, to Microsoft support articles and discussions here, I get an error, happened a few times today (annoying!)
Anyone else seeing this...
- Hi all,
Thanks for reporting, this was caused by some extra filtering on number strings due to a large number of spam posts coming in with phone numbers in them.
Unfortunately this has he side effect of preventing posting legitimate posts that have matching number strings in them. If we changed the regex to only prevent posts that were in the format of n(nnn)-nnn-nnnn then spammers would just not post in that format.
I am keeping it under review and may well turn off the block again in the mean time my advice would be to avoid posting strings of numbers if at all possible.
Thanks Allen, appreciate the background information. Unfornatunely this catches out a lot of support.office.com articles, which will match those patterns.
I can work around this and I understand blocking spam must be a priority. I can use alternatives, which works fine, not necessarily ideal but it does the trick.
I am with Cian Allner, Allen. I can't post links to Microsoft Support articles, because the number-dash-number pattern is not allowed. Also, I can't post images from my SnagIt without renaming them, because the default name includes the time stamp in the format yyyy-mm-dd and the warning goes up.
I understand the spam fighting approach but maybe the pattern recognition could be extended to allow http at the start of the string and the most common picture extensions png, jpg and gif at the end, so they can be treated differently from spam phone numbers.
