Good Morning Team WoW Forum.
There is a button in the new post window that allows you to add and format hyperlinks. They display properly in the preview pane. However, you cannot post with hyperlinks, and you will be told when you click reply or create topic - is this going to be changed? Is there a permission system that I’m not a part of?
Trust Levels.
Most forum posters are TL2. TL2 posters are restricted from posting live links to most websites. (There are exceptions; for instance, TL2 could post links to other forum topics or posts, the last I checked.)
Trust Level 3 posters have that restriction listed, although I’m sure there are still some safeguards to prevent linking to genuinely inappropriate content. TL3 requires significant participation in the forums over a 100-day period.
If you want to include a hyperlink but don’t have sufficient Trust Level to post it, you can insert it as a dead text hyperlink by surrounding it with backtick characters:
`https://www.google.com`
which looks like
https://www.google.com/
It isn’t a live link, but it’s easy to copy/paste and the system will accept it.
And no, it’s not a bug. It’s a deliberate implementation of the website development team. I don’t understand the reasons, but that’s not really required, is it?
Wow. Thank you. In case anyone else is wondering, here are the (obscene) requirements to use a basic forum function:
Must have visited at least 50% of last 100 days
Must have replied to at least 10 different topics
Of topics created in the last 100 days, must have viewed 500 topics
Of posts created in the last 100 days, must have read 20,000 posts (both starting posts and replies)
Must have received 20 likes, and given 30 likes.
Must not have received more than 5 spam or offensive flags (with unique posts and unique users for each, confirmed by a moderator)
Must not have been suspended (including forum suspensions or in-game account actions of any Blizzard game)