# Only allow link sharing?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-allow-link-sharing/121248>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 25, 2019, 7:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-allow-link-sharing/121248 "2019-06-25T07:38:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 25, 2019, 12:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-allow-link-sharing/121248/2 "2019-06-25T12:24:40Z")

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Where there is a will there is a way, but there isn’t an obvious technical one. I’d recommend just making that a community norm. You can have a per category topic template that could tell users to include only a URL.

A URL is hardly civilized discussion. You’d need a plugin to enforce it.

Edit: boy, was I wrong!

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