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Best practices and advice how to shorten links to comments when including them in other comments? Can I safely drop the noredirect=1?

When adding links to comments within other comments I often want to shorten them so that I can add fit more plain text within the character limit. I usually start by removing the words of the title ...
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Does Cyrillic copy/pasted from a Wikipedia definition kill proper display of hyperlinks in comments, but not in posts?

I tried to quote Wikipedia in a comment: For space-word-deficient folks like myself Zarya (Russian: Заря́, lit. 'Dawn'[b]), also known as the Functional Cargo Block or FGB (from the Russian: "...
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Links to comments when the title has been edited

On a Stack Exchange site, you can get a link to a comment if you click on the timestamp next to the comment. The exact URL might be a bit different depending on the way you arrived to the comment. In ...
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Built-in (or recommended safe) way to post a link to an image inside a comment? [duplicate]

Screenshots are so useful. Is there a built-in way to upload an image that produces a link that can be shared inside a comment (since images can't be put into comments directly)? If not, what is a ...
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What's the URL format that shows all comments expanded for all SE sites?

I want to archive some questions. But some comments are hidden because of the mechanics of how SE's UX work i.e. I have to click on show X more comments below each post. So, like superuser.com/a/...
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Can I use links in comments? [duplicate]

I tried and failed here. Please tell me, what am I doing wrong?
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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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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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Short URL for comments

When posting, users have access to shortened URLs for questions (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/q/7498413/117870) and also answers (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/a/27171218/117870). These can be very ...
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How do people make link to a comment? [duplicate]

For example, this answer made a link to a comment. How to do it? There isn't any link in the comment (except for vote up, and flag a comment).
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Link in comment with spaces in URL

I couldn't get the link tag to work in a comment on Stack Overflow. Maybe because the URL has spaces in it? This is what I tried: [website](http://clojure.org/java_interop#Java Interop-The Dot ...
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How can I link comments or answers in url using url#Id?

Sometime I need to share answer with someone and want that directly user get focus on the answer or comment I am referring I have seen Urls containing the Id of post or comment with #, Is there a way ...
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Linking to a Specific Comment [duplicate]

I posted this question. And wanted to provide a link to a comment. I can find a solution to provide a link to a specific answer. Apart from going to the user's profile and their activity, finding ...
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How can I prevent a hyperlink in my comment?

I just made a comment in Stack Overflow and made an example "yourdomain.com/yourpage.asp" which was automatically converted into a hyperlink. Unfortunately this hyperlink goes to some web hosting ...
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Comment with a link with whitespaces

I'm not able to format a link with whitespaces in it in comments correctly. See my comment: Grails understanding belongsTo Association [hasOne](http://grails.org/doc/latest/ref/Domain Classes/hasOne....
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