Post Hyperlinks

[SelectHalfling0]

I have already asked one question about the forum and it was answered very quickly. Now I have another.

I use the BBCode thread to help me with BBCodes. Today, I was trying to hyperlink a specific post in a forum of mine, and when I clicked on it it gave me a warning:

SelectHalfling0, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?

If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

Does anybody know how to correct this?

[Ikaneko]

I would say the thread had been deleted.

Happens all the time.

[Norpo]

My first guess is that either:

The thread got deleted, or you entered the wrong ID (and it's directing you to a mod-only subforum or something, or a different deleted thread)

I don't mess around with links on the forum that often though, so take this advice with a grain of salt.

[SelectHalfling0]

This is linking posts from the same thread. Sorry for the confusion.

[vexx32]

Do you have the link, so we can check it out?

[SelectHalfling0]

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/94287-Show-off-your-Interplanetary-Ships%21

[vexx32]

Ah, I see what's happened. That's not how the post hyperlinks work. Each post in the entire forum has a unique ID. As an example, your last post just now has an ID of 1709257. These IDs are what's used with the post hyperlink. By referencing IDs like 2 and 5 and 17 and in between, you're actually linking to completely different posts -- these posts are some of the oldest in the entire forum, and even I don't have access to where some of those are kept.

The numbers in the top right of posts are just the number of a post in the thread, and are not immutable. You'll need to copy the hyperlink (each post number is hyperlinked) from it (right-click -> Copy Link Address, or the equivalent if you use a different browser to me) and get the ID from that hyperlink. The hyperlink of your last post is

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/109265-Post-Hyperlinks?p=[B]1709257[/B]&viewfull=1#post1709257

I've bolded the bit where the actual post ID is. That ID number is what you need to use for post hyperlinks.

[SelectHalfling0]

ohhhh.... oh.

Thanks for the help!