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Can we stop counting link text in comment word-counts? [duplicate]
I have recently posted a comment which linked to a Google Ngrams search of some word uses.
[Ngrams](https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=caught+flu%2Ccaught+the+flu%2Ccaught+measles%2Ccaught+...
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How do I make this URL ending in a period work in the comments?
With this URL:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Transform_LaTex_formulas_in_spoken_words_and_make_it_readable_with_text_to_speech_programs.
It is broken unless I add a \ to the end in ...
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Archive.org URLs without asterisks not handled properly in comments
I have seen that attempting to navigate to a URL such as http://web.archive.org/http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interview-club-nintendo.html#/game-and-watch-ball-reward/0/0 posted in a comment will ...
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Link length format in comments?
I posted a link to the PHP manual here, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38980871/fetch-mysql-record-using-php, but it got cut off at http://php.net/manua. Did the length of links get restricted?
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Domain names followed by full stops create invalid IDN domain names
A comment of mine contains the text See also: http://languagelearning.stackexchange.com. However, this appears as See also: languagelearning.stackexchange.com;. (where did that semi-colon come ...
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Ban link comments that don't have any text?
It happened to me several times on various SE sites that I post a question and someone posts a link as a comment. Sometimes it's a link to another SE question, sometimes to any other resource. And ...
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Discourage URL shorteners in comments: don't add link's href size to the total comment size
If a comment has [short title](http://lo-o-ong.example.com/url) link, then http://lo-o-ong.example.com/url is counted towards the total comment length limit.
The answer to the same issue (to ignore ...
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archive.org URL not handled properly in comment [duplicate]
On What should a job-seeker know about job non-descriptions? I wanted, given a point of seniority that was relevant to the description, to offer a crude metric of the date of earliest recorded webpage ...
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Shall we make it easier to find the links to comments? [duplicate]
If you are the author of a post, or you are @Mentioned, you are notified when there is a comment, and are given a link to it. However, if you just want a link to the comment, there is no way of ...
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Comment author link not a link? [duplicate]
On this pro-webmasters question, although the OP still has an active account (and the profile link in the question's flair renders normally), if you look at some of the comments you'll see that the OP'...
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Please remove the ... when posting a SE network question is comments
Can the ... be lost from the end of links to this site. Have a look at the comment below.
I think it's unnecessary as the link ID is always shown - the text afterwards is not needed in the link.
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Will links to images be kept permanently when added to a comment and nothing else? [duplicate]
I assume, that Stack Exchange have some clean-up subsystem, which deletes all "abandoned" images (stored at i.sstatic.net), that is, all of them, that were initially uploaded, but no post is actually ...
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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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Please link to chat room when mod moves comment to chat
In a recent discussion about a question, a moderator moved the numerous comments to chat, and left a comment with a link to the room.
However, a bunch of us were left wondering why there isn't an ...
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Is there any way to shorten links to comments?
I'm wondering if there's a way to use the http://s.tk/ link shortening format for links to comments or if there is another abbreviated way to link to comments.
Long story short I'm trying to link to ...
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