Ach, I can't use the vB command to link to a thread

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…because for the life of me, I CANNOT find the thread ID.

Now that I’ve revealed how impossibly dense I am, can someone tell me:

  1. How to locate the thread ID?

  2. Where I should have looked on the message board to find an answer to this question? (I did try looking around, but the info on using vB is pretty cryptic.)

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It says right up there in the address bar once you click on the thread in question. For example, this thread is

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=**421172**

If you want to link to a post, you can hover your mouse over the little number in the upper right hand corner of said post to find its number. For example, your post is

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=**8582229**&postcount=1

There’s probably a more elegant way of finding those numbers, but we’ll need a vB maven to explain those, as I have no idea otherwise.

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THANKS.

…ignorance successfully fought, once again.

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The easiest way to link to a thread is to copy the URL from the address bar into your clipboard, and then paste it into your post.