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Offer long links to answers, in addition to just short

Let's say you are looking at some question and you see a good answer, and you want to share it with your friends. Well, each answer only has short links available. If you want a long link that looks ...
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How to set the specific part links in questions or answers to jump to them with Markdown Editing? [duplicate]

As shown below, I'm trying to set the specific part links in an answer to jump to them with Markdown editing on Stack Overflow: <p id="part-link1">Part Link 1</p> <p id=&...
Super Kai - Kazuya Ito's user avatar
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Enable clicking on [Share] to automatically copy link to clipboard

When the user clicks on the [Share] link under the post (either a question or an answer), a popup window appears with the link automatically highlighted. I propose that the link should be ...
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Old links to answer sort orders became broken after the change to answer sort tabs

I previously posted this as an answer (10k-only) to the announcement Revisiting changes to answer sorting menu: better use of space, moving menu into a dropdown, ascending/descending sort options, ...
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1 answer
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How can I answer questions with affiliate links? [duplicate]

I am new here. As an affiliate marketer, what can I do to be able to post affiliate links to answers questions about new technology, health and design on stackoverflow.com?
Michael's user avatar
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Answer links from search pages do not load the page at the linked answer

This appears to have started breaking in the last four hours or so. To reproduce: Do a search for answers on a Stack Exchange site. For the sake of a demonstration I'll use is:a on Meta Stack ...
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Timeline page should make it easy to go to specific answer [duplicate]

I was looking at the timeline of What can we do to encourage downvoting? on Meta.SO. This is a big question with lots of answers. In the timeline I saw an answer that I was interested in reading ...
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Is it acceptable to copy my own answer? [duplicate]

Is it generally accepted to copy my own answers across questions / exchange sites? (assuming the questions are not duplicates and the answer solves both questions) Should I link back to the original?
loopbackbee's user avatar
4 votes
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Showing Links to Answers

Is there a trick to showing links to answers? I notice that they all have a distinct id, so it’s 90% in place already. Sometimes it would be helpful link to an answer rather than a question. I have a ...
Manngo's user avatar
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Clicking on answer item from the achivements dialog doesn't close the dialog

Achivements dialog can contains items linked to the answers (e.g. when your answers got votes or you accept an answer for your question). In that case if you already had opened a page via that link, ...
αλεχολυτ's user avatar
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1 answer
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Is it ok to answer a contest post with a list of links to others' content?

I am not sure if my potential post passes muster. I have a fun answer to Time for some more swag! I would like to post the Top 10 Songs of All Time list. This is a top 10 list, so the songs ...
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Anchor links for sharing specific answers [duplicate]

I want to be able to share answers using anchor links, such that when the link is visited, the page scrolls to the particular answer instead of showing the top of the page. A good example is seen ...
Elisha Senoo's user avatar
36 votes
1 answer
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Why did the format of full-form URLs to answers change?

As I pointed out in this answer, the URL scheme for full-form links to answers has changed from: https://site/questions/question-id/question-title/answer-id#answer-id to: https://site/questions/...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
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Linking to /?lastactivity breaks when that activity is on second or greater page [duplicate]

When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here: ...
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Is there a new "Read-More-auto-insert" feature active on the sites?

I started writing a new answer just now on Chem.SE, and all of a sudden I realized some text had appeared that I (am pretty sure I) hadn't typed: Is this some sort of new automagic thingummy? Is ...
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Correct course of action when an answer is nearly word-for-word copied without attribution? [duplicate]

I was searching "C++ returning array from function" on Google when I noticed that the top two results - Stack Overflow and Tutorialspoint - had exactly the same short description beneath the ...
dcmorse's user avatar
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Use Archive.org for links in answers?

I recently had the problem that a specific page was down from which I needed a script. So I used my standard way to obtain this file and searched for this page on archive.org and found the page and ...
SEJPM's user avatar
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9 votes
1 answer
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Dealing with malicious links internally/externally

Occasionally I'll notice a link within a question/answer/comment that might have been legitimately mistyped, however, I'm thinking this might not always be the case. If not paying careful attention ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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How to copy links of answers and comments?

I've seen on SE sites where people post a link to some answer or comment, so that when you click on it, you're taken directly to that post and even highlights for a split second. I would like to know ...
Jerry Dodge's user avatar
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1 vote
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Can Stack Exchange sites generate pages that link directly to a specific answer?

I would like to be able to provide a link directly to an answer within a page without having to tell someone how to scroll down to the answer of interest. Is this possible or do the StackExchange ...
gonzobrains's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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Why can't I add an example http url in an answer? [duplicate]

I tried to answer someone's question about a URL format with an example: http://mysite.com/service.asmx?blah=something I got an error saying I can't save an answer with http in it. How can I get ...
steve cook's user avatar
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1 answer
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Could we add the ability to link to a specific answer to a question? [duplicate]

Elsewhere in meta I was in a discussion where an answer to a related question was very relevant. But I currently can't point to that answer, other than to say "the answer by author <here - link ...
GreenAsJade's user avatar
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3 answers
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This Question has Answers Pluralization Bug

I found in interesting bug today, I tried to delete one of my questions and it said 'sorry, this question has answers and cannot be deleted'. But, in fact, it only had one answer...
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Clicking on a link to a comment/answer should reposition the page more intuitively

I would like to suggest improved behavior for hard-linking comments and answers, in order to improve the flow of UX. The intent of the suggestion is to make the linked content visible while avoiding ...
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8 votes
2 answers
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Possible illegal content linked on answer?

This question's only answer suggested illegally downloading a book - I flagged it with other and this stipulation but it's been up for almost 24 hours. What else can I / should I do here?
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Can't use ideone to demonstrate that code from question actually compiles [duplicate]

In some cases, the code I'm placing on ideone is from the question itself. But SO won't let me post a link without adding code to my answer. Clearly the "code required in answer" decision neglected ...
Ben Voigt's user avatar
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2 answers
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Direct link to specific answers [duplicate]

Would it be a good idea to have the capability to directly link to a specific answer? Sometimes when answering questions, I would like to link to another questions's answer, but it isn't always the ...
dtryon's user avatar
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2 votes
2 answers
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Answer own question with a link to solution at another SE site?

I recently asked a question on Stack Overflow but didn't receive any answers so I posted the same question in gamedev.stackexchange.com (which I didn't know existed before). Now that I got an answer ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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Answer with outdated links

I have a question regarding outdated links in answers. While browsing through Stack Overflow, I stumbled upon this post that was finally answered by giving the right hyperlink. Unfortunately, this ...
Trinimon's user avatar
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Links to answers in a comment on the same page should resolve to anchor links

When there is a comment to a question, you can easily get a link to it from its timestamp, and when pressed, it will make the page go to its anchor and highlight it without reloading the page. But a ...
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