Question

We are having problems with our site at answers.unity3d.com because we can't customize the reputation rules.

New users can't post more than one link in a post, discouraging cross-referencing to our software manual, other answers, and other pages on our own domain. That users are discouraged from this is a huge problem! We want our users to post links to multiple resources when relevant!

Rules like this seem to be made to avoid abuse of the site, but we have almost no problems with abuse at this point, and all this rule does is make our users angry and reluctant to use the site.

And why would links to pages on the same domain ever be restricted?

P.S. Bootstrap mode doesn't change this rule either. New users can still only post one link in a post.

Answer 1

Eventually the maximum number of links will be configurable. For now, we'll raise the default maximum number of links to 5, since most StackExchange sites aren't really struggling with link spam. If it turns out to be a problem we can roll it back and look for a better solution.

This will go out in Beta 7.