# PostCheck **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 1, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcheck/398250 "2007-04-01T00:22:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcheck/398250/1 "2007-04-01T00:22:00Z")
[p o s t]8399872[/post] [post]8399872[/post] [p o s t = 8399872]Link to post[/post] [post=8399872]Link to post[/post] ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcheck/398250/2 "2007-04-01T07:15:28Z")
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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcheck/398250/3 "2007-04-01T13:23:25Z")
He was trying out different ways to show posts. Some don’t know of the tag [post=] and [/post] ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcheck/398250/4 "2007-04-01T15:35:32Z")
Yep. I’ve always hovered over the #4 (or whaver) link at upper right of a post and copied to clipboard and then surrounded it with tags. Just noticed [post] in the list of vBcode tags the other day while looking up something else. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/postcheck/398250/5 "2007-04-01T16:38:29Z")
[thread=] [/thread] works too.