Just post the link without using HTML.
Once you use HTML anywhere in the post, then it complicates everything.
If you use HTML in any of the post or the link will not work. Then it must be copied and pasted into the address bar and if copying and pasting doesn’t work well, it’s very frustrating.
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“Once you use HTML anywhere in the post, then it complicates everything.”
Exactly.
Agreeing with you about the frustration levels of taking a hot-linked document over to a FreeRepublic posting window and seeing formatting go out the window and having to manually enter the breaks. That is why I only so rarely insert pictures, because of having to mess with putting in the breaks and paragraph notations.
The process I used to bring over the Q documents was precisely done in order to not have to run into the html meat grinder. I did post my document without using html.
And I didn’t have to go through the html paragraph and break notations either. I copied the documents directly from the qanon.pub web page onto a word processing page.
I searched for live buried links by running my cursor over the text. The cursor detects live links. If the hot link is one of those envelope looking icon things, I simply delete it without need to search.
If a number link to the chan reference is an active link, I kill it by clicking on it once. (I’m on Apple, but I suspect that PCs have a similar thing.) By clicking on the link, I am given a choice menu. I can either go to the linked item, or “edit the link.”
I choose edit. Then I have the choice to remove it. I remove, leaving a dead link.
If a link is to something that the FreeRepublic system will allow without html being required, such as a link to a news web site, I leave it still active.
I use this technique when posting Wikipedia excerpts. They have a LOT of embedded links which can be hard to find once your document on the FR posting window gets all compressed from them. I have found it easier to just remove / deaden them before posting. If I miss one, and the compression occurs, I go to that initial cut and pasted word processing document and search for a hot link. That search will show me where in the compressed mess I will find the problem by looking for the little nonsensical groups of numbers and symbols which indicate a hot link. Delete those, and then the problem clears up.
I have not tried yet to use the technique that ransomnote has shared with us which converts a document with a lot of hot links into a clean document with FreeRepublic accepts.
Thank you for the detailed directions. If you could kindly remind me of where ransomnote’s technique which converts into a FR friendly document, I’d appreciate that too.
PS--Has anyone ever told you, you rock?