Use of URL shorteners

[PaulH]

An awful lot of the spam we get on the board makes use of url shorteners such as bitly and shrinkme. As well as being unfriendly for your reader, your post (and even your account) is much more likely to be deleted as spam if you use such services. So don't!

[Sakly]

And not necessary if you modify the url code like this:

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 [url="your_extra_large_url_which_is_absolutely_horrible_to_read"]Your URL text what is shown[/url]

Your URL text what is shown