Adding links in Comments as Anonymous

[Tristan Michael Booth]

G'day All,

I am wondering if anyone knows a way to prevent Anonymous users from being able to include links in their comments.

We dont want to take away comments from Anonymous users as we see this in our case as a way to gather feedback from professional users on our published standards.

We would like to take away the ability to include a link in these comments. It is no great issue if some malicious user writes something inappropriate in the comments, we can just delete it. The concern would be people adding malicious links the kind you get in phising emails into a page and someone clicking on it before we admins can delete it. 

I cant see any way to limit the functions of comments only prevent it entirely or allow it. Hoping someone else may know of a way and if not if others think this would be a good feature to add to Confluence in the future.

We are using Confluence Cloud for reference.

Cheers

Tristan

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There's no way to do this on Cloud.

On a Server/DC installation, there's a couple of apps that can do it in the marketplace.  Years ago, I wrote one for server that would remove all links from a posting from anonymous or new unproven users (self-sign up was enabled) automatically.  Nowadays, I'd try to do it with ScriptRunner for Confluence.