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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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6 votes
3 answers
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URL not handled correctly in Comments

I was answering this question and was trying to post following url in comments but everytime it failed - http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tomershamam/archive/2007/05/25/Compiled-XAML-3D00-BAML-not-...
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Apply post-tag CSS class to shorthand tag links in comments [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Are tags renderred differently in questions and comments on purpose? The editing help explains that comment formatting supports shorthand links, including: [tag:tagname] ...
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Can markdown mini replace an en dash with a normal hyphen in URLs?

Further to Tim Stone's response to my bug report regarding what turned out to be an en dash in an URL: Would it be reasonable for markdown mini to replace en dashes with normal hyphens? Or is that ...
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1 answer
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Also let shortlinks in comments have a tooltip with the question title

See the two comments below for an example. The first comment has the title of the linked question in the tooltip, but the second link does not.
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157 votes
4 answers
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Replace links with the current question title in comments

In questions, links get converted into question titles (see Replace trilogy raw links with the current question title?) Can the same functionality be added to comments?
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5 votes
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Recognize URLs in angle brackets in comments

When I type a URL in angle brackets, such as <http://www.example.com&gt;, in a comment, the URL is not detected and linked. Supporting this would allow links to be used more naturally in the ...
Michael Ekstrand's user avatar