Final Fantasy Hacktics

I noticed on the sign-up page on the forum

> 11. Use descriptive titling when creating your topic.

link doesn't seem to be working as intended. it links to a non working index.php?topic='2588.0""' instead of index.php?topic=2588.0 which results in a non opening link. the href shows as

<a href="//" https:="" ffhacktics.com="" smf="" index.php?topic="2588.0&quot;&quot;" class="bbc_link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">descriptive titling</a>
I am guessing something caused the index.php as well as some unnecessary quotation marks to somehow escape the href=""