Where is the link?

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Does anyone know how to keep commenting software from changing character entity references?
I don't want the software to change the
< symbol to &lt;
and the
> symbol to &gt;

I keep trying to create a link and instead of a link I get the code written out.

The comment reads:
Blah blah <a href="http://www.seikowatchesusa.com"> blah blah

The code reads:
Blah blah &lt;a ref="http://www.seikowatchesusa.com"&gt; blah blah

How do I keep this from happening?
#main internet marketing discussion forum #code #html #link #linkbuilding
  • A better question would be "Am I allowed to type HTML code in most blog comments?" to which the answer is "no" and that's why your software does that.
  • Do you really think the blog owners want your spam?
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    • I don't spam. If I cant contribute intelligently, I don't post.

      That is a fair response. There are a bunch of spammer out there, and if they figured out how to do this, it would be SPAMaggedon. Thanks helping me look at it from a different point of view. As obvious as it is, I had not thought about that.

      The reason I was asking is because I went to post a comment on an interesting article that had several comments with links on them. I posted something (intelligently, again I don't spam), but I had the issue I described in the original post.

      Being new to many aspects of IM, and seeing that other posts had links, I thought I was doing something wrong.

      Any helpful insight would be appreciated. Otherwise, thanks anyway.
  • vs.
    Those two statements just don't add up...
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    • Oh, that hurts! Ok, ok, fair enough. That question was not a very intelligent question.

      In my inexperience, I thought I was doing something wrong. I got so caught up in trying to figure out what I was doing wrong that I did not think it through.

      My bad.
  • Banned
    Make relevant, useful comments manually and forget the comment spam. It just gets deleted anyway.
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