Pointing others to threads?

[retzev]

No matter which page I'm viewing, my address bar reads http://www.dsboards.com/indexse05.html. How do I point a cousin to another thread when they all look the same?

[Mysterious Benefactor]

The way to point people to other topics/posts is to first quote the post you want to point to, next copy the opening quote tag with all its code (which will look something like this:

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[quote author=retzev link=topic=13872.msg123480#msg123480 date=1209785433]
post that into the post you'd like to make, and be sure to add a closing quote tag at the end of the opening quote tag and all its code, like this:

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[quote author=retzev link=topic=13872.msg123480#msg123480 date=1209785433][/quote]
If you'd like, you can also add the title of the topic between the quote tags, like this:

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[quote author=retzev link=topic=13872.msg123480#msg123480 date=1209785433]Pointing others to threads?[/quote]
Or you could quote some small portion of the original post, like this:

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[quote author=retzev link=topic=13872.msg123480#msg123480 date=1209785433]No matter which page I'm viewing...[/quote]
But what's absolutely essential is including the opening quote tag with all its code and the closing quote tag in your new post.

I hope that helps. 

[MagnusTrask]

If it's a link that one can click on, it doesn't matter how convoluted or confusing the address is.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

That's true of links to anything outside the forum, Magnus. But using the code within posts' opening quote tags is the only way to link to posts within the forum itself.