Not a fan of not being able to post links

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Can’t even link youtube videos that are overwatch related. Can’t post images that are overwatch related. Can’t post image links of fan skins, anything.

I was pretty active on the old forums and never misused that feature. Doesn’t this seem a little punishing for old posters?

I’m not asking for the links to be clickable, but to not be able to post them at all seems a little punishing for old forum users, no?

I can’t post content related to pre-rework symmetra on the symmetra megathread just because my post history didn’t transfer over. I never trolled or anything. Kind of bums me out I can’t get the same freedom as before.

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Yeah, i dont like that they removed stuff and then made un unlocleable

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As annoying as it is, there is a bit of a bright side to it. Keeps people from creating a thread about a topic then include nothing but a link to some guy rambling on about who knows what waiting for them to get to said topic. Kinda forces people to actually include the information in their posts.

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You have to earn the ability to post links, YouTube vids, images, gifs etc. If you gain enough “trust” you get the ability to post those things.

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forums(.)blizzard(.)com/en/overwatch/t/not-a-fan-of-not-being-able-to-post-links/1888/3

oh look, a link

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The problem is it makes bug reporting all the more difficult because you won’t be able to post links/gifs of the bugs, which are important information to help identify the bugs

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I believe you can post links as code?

https://www.google.com/

Still frustrating, but at least it’s better than putting the dot in parenthesis and so you can post links for bugs and stuff.

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Posting links is just something you have to earn.

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Aww, man. I had something special planned for when Season 8 ends, but now I can’t do it since we can’t post links, apparently.

Feelsbadman

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hey, how do you write, as ‘‘code’’ ? o:

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There’s a little </> symbol when you’re typing a reply, on the top bar where you can choose bold or italics and stuff. Just highlight the “code”, press </>, and voila!

Or, alternately, put backticks (`) around your text.

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Possibly a relevant link: