How do I link to a post and not a thread page?

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1

The title pretty much says it all. When referencing someone’s past post, how do I code that post and only that post?

2

Click the post number in the corner next to the “bad post” button. That should bring the post up on its own page, allowing you to copy the URL.

3

What he said. If you want to link to the thread page and show the post in context, you can copy the link as described

Here’s an example:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9640665&postcount=169

And then change “showpost” to “showthread”

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9640665&postcount=169

Here they are parsed as links (I posted them unparsed so that you could see the whole URL:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9640665&postcount=169

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=9640665&postcount=169

4

Simply changing “showpost” to “showthread” doesn’t work quite correctly with Firefox. You have to scroll down a page for the intended post. It’s a clever but undocumented hack that happens to work. It is, however, still very handy to use when someone used the “showpost” format and you want to see the post in context. I use it all the time.

The documented way to show the post in context which works correctly for everyone is as follows:

[****post=9640665]your text here[/post]

Which generates [post=9640665]your text here[/post]

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Huh. It works fine for me in Firefox. But thanks for this: