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A file name is considered as an URL

Hello, I tried to make a post with title and body including the string "todo.md".

For example, the title was

A tool for "todo<dot>md"

and the content included the string wrapped by a code block like

... this tool is for people who use `todo<dot>md` ...

However, these strings were considered as URLs by IH system and the post was denied with the messages like

  • "You cannot include URLs in the title"
  • "You can't share multiple links until you have a better reputation."
    • This post itself faced the same problem and . was replaced with <dot> in this post. Please consider <dot> in this post as . to read.

though I just wanted to embed file names to the text.

I think it's weird to consider such strings without URL schemas (http:// or https://) as URLs. It's just a filename, especially wrapped in code blocks.

on March 21, 2020