the process of posting with a link evades me

November 24, 2004 10:57 AM

True, I have battled many an apeman. Yet the process of posting with a link evades me. Can anyone give me the quick skinny?
posted by ifoughttheapemen to Etiquette/Policy at 10:57 AM (43 comments total)

Highlight the words to be linked. Click the "link" button at the lower right of the text input box. That should bring up a window with a space to paste in the URL. Hit "enter."

Welcome.
posted by luser at 11:03 AM on November 24, 2004

or you type in the html.

or you type in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/">html</a>.

posted by andrew cooke at 11:05 AM on November 24, 2004

ooooh. is a quine post possible?</nerdfilter>
posted by andrew cooke at 11:07 AM on November 24, 2004

Thanks so much for the help! Is there a problem when using a mac or certain browsers? I don't seem to see a link button?
posted by ifoughttheapemen at 11:39 AM on November 24, 2004

Its there for me in Firefox 1.0 but not in Safari.
posted by vacapinta at 11:41 AM on November 24, 2004

test!

Are you a member of the sandwich club?
posted by ifoughttheapemen at 11:41 AM on November 24, 2004

It worked! Thanks for the help!
posted by ifoughttheapemen at 11:42 AM on November 24, 2004

Hmmm, sandwich....
posted by sebas at 12:00 PM on November 24, 2004

welcome, mike.
but you forgot to tell us who won -- you or the apemen?
posted by matteo at 12:26 PM on November 24, 2004

I had the same problem when I first joined up (thanks madamjujujive!).
posted by loquax at 12:35 PM on November 24, 2004

I think there should be a rule that newbies can't post topics to the gray until they've been members for a week to force them to search for answers and figure things out on their own.
posted by Arch Stanton at 1:05 PM on November 24, 2004

juju helped you fight an apeman?
posted by homunculus at 1:05 PM on November 24, 2004

"but you forgot to tell us who won -- you or the apemen?"

You know, that's the funny thing about fighting apemen, it's never easy to figur out who won.
posted by ifoughttheapemen at 1:58 PM on November 24, 2004

ps. for Arch Stanton;

Been reading MeFi for years, I searched for the answers for two days. I discovered that the information on how to post links is as elusive as the windigo. Thanks to everyone who took time to help out an aging inter-species wrestling champ.
posted by ifoughttheapemen at 2:04 PM on November 24, 2004

i find it totally bizarre that, surfing an html web with an html browser, it doesn't seem to occur to people that they would use html to make a link, given that the link is the fundamental unit of html, and the entirety of the web is constructed of it.
posted by quonsar at 4:48 PM on November 24, 2004

You know, that's the funny thing about fighting apemen, it's never easy to figur out who won.

Right, as Nietzsche put it:
"He who fights with apemen should take care that he himself does not become an apeman. And if you gaze long into the browser, the browser gazes also into you."
posted by felix betachat at 5:13 PM on November 24, 2004

I think that is due to the fact that so many web-based forums do not allow the use of HTML.
posted by modofo at 5:13 PM on November 24, 2004

I blame AOL.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:32 PM on November 24, 2004

i find it totally bizarre that, surfing an html web with an html browser, it doesn't seem to occur to people that they would use html to make a link, given that the link is the fundamental unit of html, and the entirety of the web is constructed of it.

Some of us aren't as technically savvy as everyone here.
posted by Colloquial Collision at 5:41 PM on November 24, 2004

Some of us aren't as technically savvy as everyone here.

Indeed.
posted by mexican at 5:51 PM on November 24, 2004

Some of us aren't as technically savvy as everyone here.

Oh come on. The same question was posted 2 days ago. It has nothing to do with 'being savvy'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:14 PM on November 24, 2004

That said, ifoughttheapemen amuses me, and I'm only snarking on him/her a little bit.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:15 PM on November 24, 2004

I think there should be a rule that newbies can't post topics to the gray until they've been members for a week to force them to search for answers and figure things out on their own.

I think. That's based on faulty logic.
posted by Count Ziggurat at 6:55 PM on November 24, 2004

This guy is too busy fighting apemen to delve into the black arts of html. Give him a break.
posted by euphorb at 8:16 PM on November 24, 2004

i find it totally bizarre that, surfing an html web with an html browser, it doesn't seem to occur to people that they would use html to make a link, given that the link is the fundamental unit of html, and the entirety of the web is constructed of it.

I find it totally bizarre that you find it totally bizarre, what with bbcode being much more common than html in forums and other group participation parts of the net, like this one. Most community sites avoid html because of the potential to cause damage, and implement a proprietary control scheme instead. After all, binary commands are the fundamental units of computing, and the entirety of the web is constructed in binary, but it never occurs to enter binary commands in order to make a link.
posted by Bugbread at 8:31 PM on November 24, 2004

hey! you copied that technique from me!
posted by quonsar at 9:12 PM on November 24, 2004

I think there should be a rule that newbies can't post topics to the gray until they've been members for a week to force them to search for answers and figure things out on their own.

I actually think it's a good thing that all the newbies are so comfortable with MetaTalk. mmm... false sense of security...
posted by Yelling At Nothing at 9:34 PM on November 24, 2004

That was what my first MeTa thread was about too!
posted by norm at 10:22 PM on November 24, 2004

I find it totally bizarre that you find it totally bizarre that quonsar find it totally bizarre that some members of a group of A-list bloggers don't know enough HTML to make a link.
posted by mexican at 10:41 PM on November 24, 2004

I find that bizarre ^_^

My guess is not that they didn't know html, but didn't know that html is allowed. I was pretty surprised on becoming a member that plain html was allowed.

I guess I'm bizarre.
posted by Bugbread at 11:13 PM on November 24, 2004

FAQ
posted by scarabic at 12:20 AM on November 25, 2004

as in "we need one," not as in "read the fuckin thing, dipshit"
posted by scarabic at 12:21 AM on November 25, 2004

See, that kind of thing is why I'd just assumed html was not allowed.

That kind of thing is also what's causing me uncontrollable laughter right now. Thanks, scarabic.
posted by Bugbread at 12:35 AM on November 25, 2004

scarabic, my horizontal scrollbar will be contacting your lawyers.
posted by Gyan at 6:43 AM on November 25, 2004

Geez, I think its funny that the posting two days before me inquiring about posting links that I didn't find was done by Fuzzy Monster. Man, am I a lousy cryptozoologist!
posted by ifoughttheapemen at 8:58 AM on November 25, 2004

I am an apeman and have never fought this fellow. Html does not come to us naturally either.
posted by sick_hill at 10:01 AM on November 25, 2004

I hate you all.
in 128-point Univers bold.
posted by matteo at 10:54 AM on November 25, 2004

We're all in this together. Post on, my friends, post on.
And matteo: ♥
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 11:53 AM on November 25, 2004

Squirrel ? Fuzzy Monster (and the man who fought him)
posted by squirrel at 6:17 PM on November 25, 2004

(heck, there was supposed to be a club in there!)
?
?
?
posted by squirrel at 8:18 PM on November 25, 2004

That's strange... the card symbols show up in preview, and then get changed to "?" upon post. Why didn't Fuzzy Monster's heart ??
posted by squirrel at 8:20 PM on November 25, 2004

that is almost as popular a question as 'what does "." mean' and 'hey! what happenned to my post?!'
posted by quonsar at 8:56 PM on November 25, 2004

Squirrel: it's because love conquers all.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 12:39 AM on November 26, 2004