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Is it an issue that lemmy automatically makes url links out of grammatical errors? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I have done this accidentally a lot but if you make an error like this

This is a sentence.be happy about another sentence.

...at least in my lemmy client it automatically becomes a link.

I am not confident this is an issue but also I have noticed it and wanted to ask.

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[–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not an issue, the client has to recognize possible links.

As the other comment mentioned, you can edit the text to fix grammar errors.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    My point is couldn't someone exploit that with a website that has a url matching a common grammatical error of this type?

    You could put the chicken before the egg too by making a bunch of bot comments hat appear plausible except for errors like that and then actually launch the website right?

    If I "accidentally" link to that hostile website by making a totally normal "grammatical error" how do you establish intent?

    From a zoomed out database/admin level how do you quickly tell the difference between the two in bulk amounts of posts/comments you can't possibly search all the way through by hand...?

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