A clean, responsible, and non-snarky way to deal with a funged link

December 3, 2002 3:53 AM

Thanks sebas. A clean, responsible, and non-snarky way to deal with a funged link for the benefit of the community.
posted by PrinceValium to Etiquette/Policy at 3:53 AM (8 comments total)

You're more than welcome :)
posted by sebas at 4:25 AM on December 3, 2002

Prince or sebas or crassposter - what actually happened? why did it turn out so odd? just curious...
posted by dash_slot- at 9:10 AM on December 3, 2002

One of the links was missing a quote after the the href=, but had a quote after the link, so it messed up.
posted by riffola at 9:16 AM on December 3, 2002

Thus:

<a target='_blank' href=http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF12/1267.html" ">Alaska</a>
posted by timeistight at 9:19 AM on December 3, 2002

a-ha...all is revealed [or woulda been, had I rembered View/Source..]
Thanks, guys.
posted by dash_slot- at 9:25 AM on December 3, 2002

Wouldn't it have made more sense to just say "Alaska link should be X"? As it was, I went to comments, saw an apparent repetition of the entire post by someone else and shook my head in bafflement. It's like noticing a typo in a comment you just made and, instead of saying "Oops, I meant X," repeating the entire comment but silently fixing the typo. Inefficient and confusing.
posted by languagehat at 9:44 AM on December 3, 2002

Because the rest of the comment behind the odd-link was also left out of post I tought it would be easier if I just repeated the whole post.
That would keep it in context as well as showing that I didn't comment to the post.
posted by sebas at 10:01 AM on December 3, 2002

I'm sure if we ask matt nicely he can amend the post to show it correct and delete the first comment I made, that should clear up all confusion.
posted by sebas at 10:05 AM on December 3, 2002