I dont want to turn off spam options.

But I turned them down, in hopes of the "removed link" problem going away.

When it did not, I turned them off completely, and the "removed link" kept showing up anyway.  This has been verified multiple times with the setting you see above.

It happens way too often.  Users are not happy.

Please do it again, just set it zero. It must work and it'll work.

Settings look like this now.  Ill wait and see if anyone complains now.

This is the wpforo.com forum settings and I've never seen removed link here:

This is very annoying and happens all the time. What is replaced with "removed link" are not links!! Just simple words replaced by a full stop.

So "The cat is on the table." becomes "The cat is on the removed link".

Can you please fix this bug? Thanks.