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To: Political Junkie Too; Pollard; absalom01
Okay, I see what you mean now about the links being different in your "my posts" versus in a normal thread.

I think that's just how the forum software works. It seems to do some automatic truncating and appending to links for reasons that I don't really understand but which seems to be pretty par for the course when you've got databasing going on behind a public interface. I would guess that you wind up with multiple instances of data that need to be coordinated and modifying the link text according to certain rules is probably a way of doing that.

Upshot is I think the links being different in different places is probably normal. And I still think the word "yelling" got mixed in due to a typo. So it's two things going on, both pretty pedestrian, but which when taken together could give the feeling that something intentional is afoot and is perhaps being directed at you.

That's my read on it FWIW. Maybe some of the guys who commented earlier and who seem to have some familiarity with how this sort of software works can chime in if they think there's more to the story.

60 posted on 03/09/2023 1:18:12 PM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick
Thanks. I think you're right.

-PJ

61 posted on 03/09/2023 1:23:27 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Yardstick

This kind of confusion never happened when we all just used Vi. Emacs ruined everything.


62 posted on 03/10/2023 9:00:39 AM PST by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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