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Possible bug in News Code
1 point by eds 5891 days ago | 5 comments
Just noticed a little strange behavior in link creation in the news code. I don't know if it is a bug or not, but I figured I'd post it up and see what people think.

I've noticed that whenever there is a url in a submission, it isn't converted to a link, but if it is in a comment, it is.

Is this strange or what? And if this actually intentional, why?

To demonstrate, this is not a link in the initial submission:

http://www.arclanguage.com/

The literal text I pasted in was:

  "http://www.arclanguage.com/"
See my comment for part two of the demonstration.


1 point by sacado 5891 days ago | link

That is normal. I don't know why, however, but you can read it when clicking the help link :

"Blank lines separate paragraphs.

Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)

Text surrounded by asterisks is italicized, if the character after the first asterisk isn't whitespace.

Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission."

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1 point by eds 5890 days ago | link

Hmmm... that seems rather inconsistent to me. Why would links in initial submissions not be automatically converted to links?

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4 points by tokipin 5890 days ago | link

probably to discourage commenting about URL submissions, which would confuse voting for the article (nice URL, shitty comment,) give a higher presentation priority to the submitter's comment, muddy up the analysis of the URL, and prematurely guide conversation

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4 points by cchooper 5890 days ago | link

Maybe to encourage people to use the url submission feature, rather than putting the link in the text? (just a guess)

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1 point by eds 5891 days ago | link

Part Two Of My Demonstration

This is a link in a comment:

http://www.arclanguage.com/

The literal text I pasted in was again:

  "http://www.arclanguage.com/"

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