Many of you link to another post in your own post like this:
http://www.indiabroadband.net/genera...tml#post192631 (An IBF Thought (Cartoon series ..Picture1))
Now there is a lot of problem in linking as above. I bet that the above link does not exactly take you to the correct post. Now, why is that? The reason is the way the URL is built for each link by vBulletin.
vBulletin forms URL as follows:
http//: forum URL / section_name / <... more section names / ...> thread_id-title-page_no#post_id
That is the problem. The page number. The page number is controlled by your user CP preferences. The default is 10 posts per page. But I hate to scroll thru pages; so I have set it higher at 30 posts per page. Because of the wrong page number, the URL is incorrect and hence link fails.
The correct way to refer posts is using the BB code tags: [POST]post_id[/POST].
For example, in the above link, the post id is 192631. So to link the above simply use:
Sample: [POST]192631[/POST]
Result: http://www.indiabroadband.net/showthread.php?p=192631



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Will follow it from now on. My settings are 40 posts (max) per page. Now, i realize that all the links to other posts i include in my posts, makes no sense to almost all members ..
