[Oni]

What links/file hosts are you specifically referring to?

Any form of short links/redirection entailing popups and the like, Is not permitted.

It's impossible for staff to check every thread, as it would take a lifetime to look at the hundreds of thousands of posts we have. Though it's one of the milder offenses, we encourage people to report threads with short links. We also appreciate it when people provide direct links for those threads, so the content is still accessible for everyone.

how can you say impossible , you must check [snip], [snip] they have million of traffic in there forum ,  it rarely you will find shortlink there...because of strictness.how they managing then ... and recently [snip] implelement a plugin to stop short link....it automatically scan...or you can make condition like mega.nz , anonfile only allowed so forum wont take any shortlink etc etc...

I said "it's impossible for staff to check every thread", which is true. Over 8 years, the sites people use for shortlinks/revenue have changed and they will continue to. A plugin can filter shortlinks and block them based on a list. Even that has limitations.

I'll give the situation some more thought. However, I'm more likely to implement a post count or upgrade requirement. A bunch of public combolists probably aren't useful to anyone, so I've been debating the necessity of the section itself.