No more links in forum comments or posts

To minimize the impact of SEO (search engine optimization) spamming, I have turned off the ability to use links in forum posts and comments. I’m not happy about doing this, but from reviewing the forum for the last couple of months, outbound links are not really that common. If you want to post a link to some music you released, or some other cool technology, just type the URL inline and forum readers can get to it with a little bit more action on their part. For example, you should all be familiar with http://ardour.org/ by now …

I am not sure that this will make the SEO spammers go away, but it will certainly make the site vastly less useful to them, and thus save me 10-20 minutes or so every day.