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When I want to share a question, I can either share a link with the full question title:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75290101/could-match-start0-ever-return-1-in-python

Or I can use a shortened referral link with my user id that gets tracked for badges:

https://stackoverflow.com/q/75290101/3357935

Let's say I want to keep the question title for context without giving up badge progression. I can add my user id to the full URL after the question title, but I don't know if visits with this link are tracked for badge progress.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/75290101/could-match-start0-ever-return-1-in-python/3357935

Is it possible to generate a question URL that includes the full question title and also works for badge tracking?

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    SO doesn't object to throwing the title after the user ID, either: stackoverflow.com/questions/75290101/176071/… ... But again, not sure if that works for tracking.
    – mbauman
    Commented Jan 31, 2023 at 22:38
  • Initially, I thought this was referring to being able to generate "share" text that included the post title formatted as a link to the post using Markdown. (Which would also be useful.)
    – V2Blast
    Commented Feb 1, 2023 at 6:14

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What you could do is assign the question title to a random parameter like this: https://stackoverflow.com/q/75290101/3357935?title=could-match-start0-ever-return-1-in-python. As a bonus, you can even retain the original formatting; the link https://stackoverflow.com/q/75290101/3357935?title=Could+Match.start(0)+ever+return+-1+in+Python? works as well. (Depending on where/how you post the link, it might even work with spaces instead of + signs.)

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