Needing to avoid use of html in this reply, I’ll not be able to do as usual, indenting and italicizing when citing some portion of a comment to address what’s isolated & highlighted in that manner...so I’ll simply use quotation marks, alone.
You has said;
“BTW, the links I post sometimes appear properly, and at other times, they do not. ...”
As a test, I copied and pasted the two links you had supplied, but used no htm.
The first link is to the youtube link in your OP, the second is the link to Gateway Pundit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TbYAC57pg
Using no htm whatsoever in this reply -—the software of this site rendered them into links.
I’m pretty sure if I had added the slightest htm, a paragraph break, an underlining or italicization the htm used elsewhere in the comment would have precluded what I’d copied & pasted automatically rendered into clickable hotlinks.
This should explain why sometimes you can successfully post a link, and why at other times you cannot.
To learn how to make a hotlink using html, try this http://sandradodd.com/hotlink for an easy-reading, well formatted instructional.
I found it by highlighting the words “clickable hotlinks” in the last sentence in above paragraph, and opening search in Startpage by ixquick; https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl, which is one of those who supposedly do not track the user.
All throughout this post I used no htm — but was still able to have this appear with paragraph breaks and hot-links.
If you ever want to LABEL the hotlinks you would like to include in comment on this forum, then the instructional could get you started. It also shows how to use and image as target, instead of words of one’s choosing.
After you’ve learned how — if requested — I’m sure somebody around here would be willing to fake-up a kindergarten graduation cert for you. You’ll need your own printer and frame though, if you’d like to hang it on a wall somewhere...
>>’m pretty sure if I had added the slightest htm, a paragraph break, an underlining or italicization the htm used elsewhere in the comment would have precluded what I’d copied & pasted automatically rendered into clickable hotlinks.
This should explain why sometimes you can successfully post a link, and why at other times you cannot.
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I was aware of this, and am fairly certain none of those executions were deployed, yet with varied results. Of course, I may be wrong.
Your efforts are appreciated, BD. My interest lays more in expressing content, as opposed to form...creating hot links, etc., but it is good to have it posted for others who may be interested.
Thanks again.