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How can I view the links in the profile description of a user without the required 10 reputation?

When a user gets suspended, their reputation drops to 1, which means that the links in their profile description can't be viewed by the readers. Example: profile description before account ...
Franck Dernoncourt's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Is there a way to link users to their profile page? [duplicate]

Say I'm writing a post on meta, and I want to direct the reader to a specific section of their profile page. One thing one can do is to just link to the profile page of the OP who asked the question, ...
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5 votes
2 answers
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Profile page on some Sites don't show link to Meta User page

I recently joined to the Project Management Beta site, and I noticed that there is no link to my meta user on the user tab: However, this does show up on other Beta and non-Beta sites I frequent, ...
DarkCygnus's user avatar
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Why are links to social media and GitHub not appearing in the SE data dump?

I am looking in the Users table for Stack Overflow in the SE data dump and have noticed something strange. There is a field for the website, namely WebsiteUrl. However, if a user has filled this ...
splinter's user avatar
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8 votes
1 answer
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Why are the links in my About section not working as on Stack Overflow

I wrote my About section on Stack Overflow. When I interacted with Meta Stack Exchange the first time, it asked if I wanted to sync the info from the first accounts. I said "yes". That ...
user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Is there a generic link to your site profile that doesn't require your user ID?

Six years on, is this possible yet? Is there a generic URL for my-user-page? I ask as I wanted to link up all the sites in the first list, here: List of communities with base css updates completed ...
AncientSwordRage's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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Link no longer working in profile "About Me"?

Just now, I tried to add a link to my SO profile "About Me" (to the last line, to be clear). But it's not working, i.e. only show the text without the link. I have tried the following two ways: Link ...
herohuyongtao's user avatar
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2 answers
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Links, HTMLs on Stack Overflow's About Me column

How do we post links on "About Me" Stack Overflow? So far, I've tried html, [name][link] format, name format, [name][link_index] format, but seems like it didn't work.. Any ideas? Here is what I ...
aIKid's user avatar
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32 votes
2 answers
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How can I get "dofollow" link in my Stack Overflow Profile?

By default, all links in SO profiles have rel="nofollow" set. But I have checked some profiles like Jon Skeet & Anoop Vaidya, and they have dofollow (i.e., not nofollow) links to their websites. ...
Sumit Bijvani's user avatar
5 votes
1 answer
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Add picture link in "About Me" page

I want to provide a link to my LinkedIn profile on the About Me page of my StackOverflow profile in the form of a link badge. LinkedIn offers several link badges and their HTML code. I chose one ...
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4 votes
1 answer
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Creating links that go to pages in clicking user's profile

Is there any way to create links to a part of the profile page, such as the revisions list, so that it will take the user to that page in their own profile? Just wondering so I could make links more ...
Brad Mace's user avatar
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1 vote
3 answers
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Autobiographer badge when linking account on multiple stack exchange websites

I have noticed that when you link your account on multiple stack exchange websites the "autobiographer" badge does not automatically get awarded even though all the profile fields are populated. Is ...
CoolBeans's user avatar
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2 votes
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Link to my SE profile

I would be surprised if this isn't a duplicate question, but I can't seem to find the answer here. Maybe I'm using the wrong words... How can I create a link to my StackExchange account/profile to ...
Daniel Standage's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
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Linking 'Display Name' in Bio

I've tried to link my name (my 'display name' is the same as my 'real name') in the 'about me' box of the user page to my personal site, but it gets removed. Other links in my bio work just fine. Is ...
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Space between anchor tag href and title attributes in profile gets removed upon display

The space between href and title in anchor tag in profile gets removed when the profile html is edited; subsequent save will cause the html to be invalid and the tags will get stripped out. The ...
Jeff Widmer's user avatar