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SirJosh3917

Formerly ninjasupeatsninja

From: USA

Joined: 2015-04-05

Posts: 2,095

Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

So, the idea of link-clicking on signs was thrown away.
But, if you have "http://google.com/" and click on it in this suggestion, it does nothing.
What if you could select text instead though? You could select some text on a sign, ctrl + c it, then ctrl + v it into your browser. That solves a problem!
Then, you could have clickable links, click on one and it opens.
Since there are settings...

Default:
Signs
[x] Selectable Text
[]  Clickable Links

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Gosha

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From: Russia

Joined: 2015-03-15

Posts: 6,211

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

It was suggested many times, but we have 1 really bad problem
We need white list or something
Because ppl can do illegal links (like to **** sites )

skullz17

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 6,699

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

Well they allowed crew alerts to be highlighted.

brb gonna alert my subs with naughty sites

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Xfrogman43

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From: need to find a new home

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,174

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

To be honest, it's the player's fault if they go to the link or not. If it contains "****" or something similar then it should be blocked out by '*'.
You could blacklist URL's that are not the major URLS, ex: tinyurl

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Lightning Splash

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From: somewhere

Joined: 2015-02-20

Posts: 230

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

To be honest, it's the player's fault if they go to the link or not. If it contains "****" or something similar then it should be blocked out by '*'.
You could blacklist URL's that are not the major URLS, ex: tinyurl

what if they use google link shortener?

Xfrogman43

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From: need to find a new home

Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 4,174

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

To be honest, it's the player's fault if they go to the link or not. If it contains "****" or something similar then it should be blocked out by '*'.
You could blacklist URL's that are not the major URLS, ex: tinyurl

what if they use google link shortener?

Then blacklist goo.gl?

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Different55

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Joined: 2015-02-07

Posts: 16,575

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

What if we only allowed links to the forums, where all links are moderated?

Just an idea.

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Purge2202

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Joined: 2015-05-24

Posts: 84

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

What if we only allowed links to the forums, where all links are moderated?

Just an idea.

It could be like this:

Forum=(topicID)

Simple!

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Krosis

Formerly Arkonagames

Joined: 2015-06-17

Posts: 2,279

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Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

or maybe do like the kongregate chat, links can be posted, but just the kongregate links can be clicked, the links would be the blog lnks, forum, worlds, etc

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skullz17

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Joined: 2015-02-15

Posts: 6,699

Re: Selectable Text on Signs (and clickable links-ish)

I don't understand though, everyone has chat, where we can already link any site we want (as long as it isn't censored, but censors can be applied to signs), so is it really a massive difference allowing it on signs as well? Plus like I said, it's also allowed when a crew sends an alert (because you can highlight the text).

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