Outside links in shops -still?

[Q]

Are people figuring out how to put ouside links in their shops, or am I just running into a bunch of old shops? Tonight is the second time in the past two months that I was not extremely careful and clicked just as a user shop shifted down when the images loaded. I ended up at a free site with a quiz. I have never changed my password so fast!

I have noticed others, but am usually very careful. If these were old shop descriptions, I would expect some images in them (and these are shops with a zillion images) to be broken.

If they are old, I hope Neo just clears all shop descriptions to get rid of them (warning us first so we can save our code!).

*annoyed*

[Michelle]

Hmm..... I haven't stumbled into any of those. Can you give me a link as an exsample?

[stampsyne]

They banned outside links for awhile. They are no longer banned, last I checked.

[everconfused]

Well, they wouldn't warn anyone before clearing a shop or lookup - I think they clear and warn at the same time?

The only thing I can think of is those shops haven't been updated at all in what, close to a year now? I think it's been about that long since the no outside links to anything rule was enforced. We just have SO much to thank the scammers for, don't we?!

I am kind of surprised that any shop, lookup, petpage or guild with clickable outside links haven't been disabled/cleared/warned ... something!

[ELEMENTx]

I know that neopets allow SOME select site links/images to be on neopets. Hmm. I think I'll actually look at the people's shops now.