Easy to spam- remove github/twitter/facebook urls about docs HOT 10 CLOSED

Great idea, but let's wait for all the pr's to come in then change it?

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Definitely agree

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Does removing the domain from the URLs really help spam?

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Probably not. It could still make things look nicer, getting rid of the horizontal scrollbar on the csv. It also makes it really obvious that a some people put incorrect URLs in anyway to stop bots.
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javascript automation:
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace( new RegExp("https://www.facebook.com/", 'g'), ''); void 0
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace( new RegExp("https://twitter.com/", 'g'), ''); void 0
document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace( new RegExp("https://github.com/", 'g'), ''); void 0

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So yeah, one big advantage to removing URLs is getting rid of incorrect URLs. They would be made a non-issue if we remove URLs from those three columns.

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When talking with him earlier tonight, @ttaylorr brought up that if we decide to add LinkedIn in the future, it has different URLs for different user profile views. I'm not a big user of LinkedIn myself (and I may have misunderstood him), but this may be an issue if we decide to remove the domain from the URLs.

I do like the idea of no longer having incorrect URLs.

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For example, if you have a Facebook "username" your link looks like https://facebook.com/ttaylorr.blau, but if you don't it looks like https://facebook.com/user/. To allow for easy data usage in the future, I'd recommend keeping in the longer URLs.

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You mean https://facebook.com/profile.php?id=, right? Either way, I concede. It's easier to use the data when it has the URL beside it

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Yeah, I did mean that - thanks @raphaelrk :)

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I'm going to go ahead and close this issue. If either of you (or anyone else) comes up with a good way to list Facebook profiles that don't have a username without the fully-qualified URL, I do agree with @raphaelrk that the document would be much cleaner with just usernames.

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