Apparently the engineers at Orkut have decided to disable users from posting hyper linked text. Users attempting to hyperlink text (example: [link=http://www.orkut.com]orkut[/link]) will come to a quick surprise when they publish to a scrap book or forum.




If a person uses the code above, it will simply put the link next to the word they were attempting to hyperlink, which basically makes the post very ugly. Ironically, the above code is mentioned in the Orkut formatting tip window, even though it no longer works.




This not only affects future posts, but it seems to have affected the ones in the past as well. Google may have done this to combat link spam, (a never ending problem for the Orkut team) although revealing the full URL of links does make the forums look a bit tacky.

About the author: Darnell Clayton is a Financial Services Professional who helps families and clients save money for their retirement accounts instead of Uncle Sam's wallet.

Previously he was in the Information Technology field, which helped him acquire his "geek-like" powers.

He currently blogs at Inside Orkut detailing what goes on inside Google's community forums.