# "Sorry, you can't include links in your posts."

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/sorry-you-cant-include-links-in-your-posts/969233>\
**Category:** Forum feedback\
**Tags:** forum\
**Created:** [October 6, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/sorry-you-cant-include-links-in-your-posts/969233 "2024-10-06T14:17:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![TreeHugger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/treehugger/32/441388_2.png) [@TreeHugger](https://community.openai.com/u/TreeHugger)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/sorry-you-cant-include-links-in-your-posts/969233/1 "2024-10-06T14:17:19Z")

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There is a **hyperlink** button in the forum comment field.

However, when adding a hyperlink to a forum reply, the user is notified that hyperlinks are not allowed.

Twas a nice touch that the message started with “Sorry”.

How can this be?

 ![Sorry, you can't include links in your posts.](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/6/8/2/682b87f6b76c1db36714821ae406730a88e9c243.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![anon22939549](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@anon22939549](https://community.openai.com/u/anon22939549)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/sorry-you-cant-include-links-in-your-posts/969233/2 "2024-10-06T17:14:36Z")

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Because at the time you were attempting to add a link to a post you did not have a Trust Level which was sufficiently high enough to enable including links in your posts.

It is an anti-spam measure put in place to impede those who would create new accounts to post links to their products and services.

Now that you’ve engaged a bit more on the forum your Trust Level has increased from Trust Level 0 to Trust Level 1 and you should be good to include relevant links in your posts.

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**Author:** ![b1acf8e0f30fefe9add3](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/b1acf8e0f30fefe9add3/32/448425_2.png) [@b1acf8e0f30fefe9add3](https://community.openai.com/u/b1acf8e0f30fefe9add3)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/sorry-you-cant-include-links-in-your-posts/969233/3 "2024-10-31T00:36:21Z")

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How much does it take to reach trust level 1?

I tried to include links to Github and Statista. Couldn’t an AI (duh!) audit the links/post and judge everything’s “spaminess”? With Github and Statista being strong indicators that it is not spam.

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**Author:** ![polepole](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/polepole/32/740575_2.png) [@polepole](https://community.openai.com/u/polepole)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 12:58am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/sorry-you-cant-include-links-in-your-posts/969233/4 "2024-10-31T00:58:41Z")

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I recommend to read this topic:

[Read this before posting a new question](https://community.openai.com/t/read-this-before-posting-a-new-question/51)

This:

[Understanding Discourse Trust Levels](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-trust-levels/)

And this:

[Trust Level Permissions Reference](https://meta.discourse.org/t/trust-level-permissions-reference/224824)