# Test of a link issue

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [May 17, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375 "2018-05-17T22:14:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375/1 "2018-05-17T22:14:03Z")

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Nothing to see here, hopefully. Move along.

> **[Somnium (novel)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somnium_(novel))**
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> Somnium (Latin for "The Dream") — full title: Somnium, seu opus posthumum De astronomia lunari — is a novel written in Latin in 1608 by Johannes Kepler. It was first published in 1634 by Kepler's son, Ludwig Kepler, several years after the death of his father. In the narrative, an Icelandic boy and his witch mother learn of an island named Levania (the Moon) from a daemon. Somnium presents a detailed imaginative description of how the Earth might look when viewed from the Moon, and is considered ...

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375/2 "2018-05-17T22:15:24Z")

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Okay, there is something to see after all. VBBS doesn’t like the closing parenthesis.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375/3 "2018-05-18T00:00:01Z")

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Nice bug. You should be able to work around it by putting the tags in manually, or by editing it so the closing URL tag is outside the last parentheses.

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375/4 "2018-05-18T06:48:42Z")

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Yeah, this is a known issue. It’s just the way the board’s software works, so there’s nothing we can do to fix it.

As **Miller** said, you can work around it by either putting the tags in yourself or editing the url tag so that it is outside of the parenthesis.

You can also hit Preview Post before hitting Submit Reply, and the url tags will be automatically added. You can then edit the tag to be outside of the parenthesis and then hit Submit Reply.

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-of-a-link-issue/814375/5 "2018-05-18T07:52:31Z")

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> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#):
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> Yeah, this is a known issue. It’s just the way the board’s software works, so there’s nothing we can do to fix it.

Ah well. It’s not a big deal, just annoying.