On this answer on out meta, Hendrik said we should make malicious sites link not clickable and add a warning. I totally agree with that.
So my question is multi-part:
- Do we have a canonical way of doing this (as an example, I
codified
the link in this question : Why is my debugger detected as a Trojan by anti-virus software?) - Is there an automatic way to do it (like by flagging?) I don't think I ever saw this.
- Could we request for a specific markdown markup for this kind of links ? This link would send the users to a confirmation page stating that "This link has been marked as malicious, be advise to be careful blah blah... {I accept} / {take me back}"
hxxp://badlink.com
(notice the two 'x's). This helps researchers still use the link but prevents an accidental click. The main issue is that new people (demographic likely to post an unfiltered 'bad' link), are simply not usually going to know a particular markdown for it... That said, you could potentially create a smart filter similar to Outlook's popup, "it looks like you forgot an attachment, do you still want to send?" where programmatically, we can attempt to suggest the markdown based on keywords within the post (and of course a link).