Weblink in chat

[Gunspec]

Ok, here's a thought, if you know the message is from RMT, why would you open it? I mean you don't do that with your email do you?

Have you ever accidently sent RMT a /r message meant for someone else? Have you ever gone to click a character's name, or <pos> data, only to have RMT spam appear beneath your mouse? I know for certain, that at some point, I would probably open a spam weblink by accident, the way those messages pour across my chat feed.

I don't get spam email nearly often enough to accidentally click a letter from a Nigerian prince when I meant to click on an email from a friend.

Don't get me wrong, hyperlinks would be nice, and I've thought of the idea myself before. But the abuse of such a thing is so obvious and inevitable, there is no helping it. This is why we can't have nice things.

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Have you ever accidently sent RMT a /r message meant for someone else? Have you ever gone to click a character's name, or <pos> data, only to have RMT spam appear beneath your mouse? I know for certain, that at some point, I would probably open a spam weblink by accident, the way those messages pour across my chat feed.
I don't get spam email nearly often enough to accidentally click a letter from a Nigerian prince when I meant to click on an email from a friend.

Don't get me wrong, hyperlinks would be nice, and I've thought of the idea myself before. But the abuse of such a thing is so obvious and inevitable, there is no helping it. This is why we can't have nice things.

No.

You underestimate the true numbers of incredibly stupid people.

Why on Earth do you think operating systems hide certain files and controls these days?

Not even wow has this. There are addons that do(and it just pops up a window with it highlighted and a button to copy to clipboard). You can't highlight and copy chat text there like you can here though.

At least with addons you have to show enough of ability to install and use it.

And yes, I imagine trolls getting jollies off malware links. The same "delete system32" and "alt+ f4 to X" jerks.

If there's a troll like that in your FC or linkshell, you've got bigger problems. And shouldn't you have an anti virus program to warn you about the web page you are about to open?

Also to all of you so eager to shoot the idea down, first of all this can just be an option you can turn on or off in the message settings. It doesn't have to be always on. Second of all if links is such a fail idea, why would web browsers, application interface, office softwares still have them. Our computers should be filled with virus malware trojan that you shouldn't even be able to open this page right now. How come you haven't click on an AD by accident when you turn your internet on, and as a result wrecked your rig?

Sounds just like a bunch of excuses to be lazy and careless. You have to read the damn message, then click or select the link. On console you have to physically go to the message box, which is a 2 steps process, even on PC you have to highlight the link, right click, then select open link.