How do you link a specific comment from a thread into another post/comment?

September 24, 2002 7:33 PM

How do you link a specific comment from a thread into another post/comment?
posted by semmi to MetaFilter-Related at 7:33 PM (12 comments total)

MetaTalk is jumping like a fat* chick** in a Richard Simmons video.

This has been asked before, if I recall (in the past few days). You click on the time at the bottom of the post, and it'll give you the url you want to use for the specific comment.


*or weight-challenged.

**or guy, or gender challenged.
posted by The God Complex at 7:38 PM on September 24, 2002

MetaTalk is jumping like a fat* chick** in a Richard Simmons video.

This has been asked before, if I recall (in the past few days). You click on the time at the bottom of the post, and it'll give you the url you want to use for the specific comment.


*or weight-challenged.

**or guy, or gender-challenged.
posted by The God Complex at 7:38 PM on September 24, 2002

mmm... Twice as offensive.
posted by crunchland at 7:42 PM on September 24, 2002

I'm married to a fat chick, and let me just say that based on my experience they rarely jump, Simmons-inspired or not.

However, when they do it is a thing of beauty.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 8:15 PM on September 24, 2002

nobody html's anymore. what's up with that, anyway?
posted by quonsar at 8:32 PM on September 24, 2002

just the cool kids, quonsar. and since no one has really answered the question completely yet, take god complex's url and make a link like this one, to a funny comment by crunchland.

<a href="http://metatalk.metafilter.com/mefi/2622#49789">link</a>

If you were only asking how to get the url just ignore me.
posted by rhyax at 9:03 PM on September 24, 2002

Thank you TGC. Thank you TGC.
Roger and out.
posted by semmi at 9:07 PM on September 24, 2002

Search... acck... search...
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 10:02 PM on September 24, 2002

mmm... Twice as offensive.

what, the link question or the Richard Simmons comment?
posted by matteo at 11:25 PM on September 24, 2002

For really non-techy folks, you can always take the long manual route:
Go to the personal profile of the person whose comment you are linking to (by clicking on the person's username);
Find this comment listed in his profile;
click on said comment;
Then copy the URL.

But it's much quicker to use the time method.
posted by Shane at 7:59 AM on September 25, 2002

For really non-techy folks, you can always take the long manual route:
Go to the personal profile of the person whose comment you are linking to (by clicking on the person's username);
Find this comment listed in his profile;
click on said comment;
Then copy the URL.

But it's much quicker to use the time method.

or, uh, you could click on the time stamp and copy the URL from the address bar. it's just as lo-tech. er.

posted by fishfucker at 12:08 PM on September 25, 2002

it's just as lo-tech. er.

Yeah, sorry--bad facetiousness (facetion?) that didn't come off, like a Family Circus cartoon where Jeffey takes the long way through the neighborhood.
posted by Shane at 7:46 AM on September 26, 2002