Hello & Cheers!! I'm a content detection and information bot. You are receiving this reply because a short link or links have been detected in your post/comment. The purpose of this message is to inform your readers and yourself about the use of and dangers of short links.
To the readers of the post: Short links are provided by url shortening services. The short links they provide can be useful in some cases. Generally their use is benign. But as with all useful tools there are dangers. Short links can be used to hide all sorts of things. Quite frequently they are used to hide referral links for instance. While not dangerous this can be deceptive. They can also be used to hide dangerous links such as links to phishing sites, sites loaded with malware, scam sites, etc. You should always be extremely cautious before clicking on one. If you don't know and trust the poster don't click. Even if you do you should still be cautious and wary of any site you are sent to. It's always better to visit the site directly and not through a short link.
To the author of the post: While short links may be useful on some sites they are not needed on steemit. You can use markdown to format your links such as this link to steemit. It's as simple as [steemit](https://steemit.com) Unlike short links this allows the reader to see where they are going by simply hovering over the link before they click on it.
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Now an url shortener bot? lol gots to be kidding me, what is happening to Steemit lately?
There is an ongoing phishing attack on steemit. The attacker is using short links to try to steal accounts. The above comments is informational since many people do not realize short links can be used for such things.
Okay that makes sense @beerbot I had no clue we were having attacks like this. I been out of the loop on that one. Sucks....then I get it, you aim to help in this area then. Good bot my friend, had a few rambunctious ones run amuk around here but warning people about theft of accounts is a wise one to have around.
No worries though on this post, I actually work for Visio and the one who wrote this one, I do their marketing. All these links are direct to the actual listed links but I will unshorten them from now on seeing there is issues going on. I appreciate you breaking it down more for me there. I normally use the shorten bitly stuff as a way to keep track of effectiveness for marketing for these guys but there are other ways to keep tabs without worrying users about if a link is good or bad. Thanks for the heads up