We're acting in the interests of our players, most of whom don't take the time to comment on the forum. We hear the concerns, but, as with everything, you can't please everyone.
With everyone you mean over 90%.
Yes, not everyone is on the forums, but that doesn't give any reason at all to just neglect all the one-sides polls here which gives a clear answer of what the community actually wants.
Forum polls have been used many times before to make a decision so there's no reason to come up with an excuse that "not everyone is on the forums" right now.
Stop avoiding our points please. You still haven't answered why it would go wrong now if it didn't go wrong before, and why you're acting against a >90% vote of the community (including your own staff team), because that's everything but acting in the interest of your players as far as I can see.
Instead of coming up with these empty excuses that honestly make no sense whatsoever and contradict management's own actions, please tell us why you really decided to not allow these links.