# Prevent keywords to become hyperlink

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [November 9, 2021, 9:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652 "2021-11-09T09:31:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2021, 7:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/7 "2021-11-10T07:04:35Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Maybe it’s just a user education issue

Just? Sure it is an education issue. But it is really big UX and UI issue too. Such tricks than breaked html-tag are

- not logical (unless one is coder or similar)
- must remember one (useless) detail more
- different than anywhere else

And then is wondered why there is difficulties to get people in Discourse-based forums and why markdown is not that widely loved than here quite often so many thinks 😉

In Discourse is already too high demand to know HTML to write an ordinary forum post, and if Ordinary Joe/Jane must learn how to break html-tags it is just too much (I don’t know if that trick has anything to do with html-tags but if it looks/smells/tastes like tag in bad UX it will be a zebra 😉 )

There is no easy AND good solutions, I reckon. The closest to good would be a black list. There is still big chance that someone will use something like [mywebsite.com](http://mywebsite.com) and get a functional link — but it is matter of high Ts and staff. And there we can educate — but it can’t be counted as final or even good solution.

An ordinary user has learned that URLs doesn’t work all the time — Facebook teached it 😉 That’s why so many knows the most common trick: mywebsite .com.

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