How to handle bad links in forum content? [#2839356]

I'd like to use Link Checker on a site that has editorial content as well as a number of forums. Links in forum topics, especially external links, tend to get stale over time, but it's not feasible for the site staff to try to fix those links. It would also be too drastic to automatically unpublish forum content just because it contains a bad link.

We can tell Link Checker to ignore the bad links one by one, but even this is quite a chore. I really don't care about link rot in the forums, but I would love to use Link Checker for the editorial parts of the site. Would it make sense to exclude the 'forum topic' content type (and forum comments) from link checking? Any other ideas?

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Comment #1

26 December 2016 at 16:33

salvis created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 26 December 2016 at 20:46

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Forum is a content type, isn't it? I think you can simply disable link checking for forum content type. Than linkchecker still works for everything else except forum. See your content type link checker settings, please. Forum is something that may be nearly impossible to manage with linkchecker. At least high traffic forums with thousands of users may never fixed.