# Stupid Question About Posting Links

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 5, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991 "2001-08-05T15:46:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![TN\_hippie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@TN\_hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TN_hippie)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991/1 "2001-08-05T15:46:26Z")

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How do I?

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**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991/2 "2001-08-05T16:15:33Z")

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To get [http://www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com) type w\*\*[ww.straightdope.com](http://ww.straightdope.com) .

To get The Straight Dope type [u\*\*rl=“[www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com)”]The Straight Dope . To see how anyone does anything, click the quote button at the bottom of their post. There is also a vB code link at the bottom of pages.

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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991/3 "2001-08-05T16:21:58Z")

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As long as I’m here.

The [vB Code](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?action=bbcode) link at the top of the page contains a pretty good explanation. If I were going to explain it, I’d just be paraphrasing that. Note on the design of these pages - the link to vB code and smilie documentation needs to be more obvious. I don’t know if you care to tweeze the PHP templates to do that, but it’s a worthwile thought.

\<HIJACK PURPOSE=“Air peeve”\>  
Funny, I’ve just been bitten again by vBulletin’s URL parsing for automated URL detection - specifically, it picked up a trailing colon as part of a URL. For an example of better URL parsing, look at most mailers that have the feature. You can’t just parse off a sequence drawn from a fixed set of characters. There are anomolous cases that you can’t handle, but vBulletin just doesn’t do this very well.  
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**Author:** ![yabob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yabob/32/2821_2.png) [@yabob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yabob)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991/4 "2001-08-05T16:27:34Z")

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Hmmm. Simulpost. As picmr notes, the link is at the bottom of the page when you are just reading. It is at the top of the page when you are composing a post. It’s that one that I’m suggesting could be more obvious.

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2001, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-question-about-posting-links/74991/5 "2001-08-05T17:13:19Z")

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> _Originally posted by TN_hippie \*  
> \*\*How do I? \*\*

[list][list][list][list][list][list][list][list] **More like SIMPLE than STUPID** [list][list]😉