How do you insert links to other threads?

You insert a link to an earlier question in the same way as you include any other link.

So, put the information in xxx then copy the link here.

This is an interesting response.

The link is obtained by hovering over the flag at the end of the response.

But, @Earthbound_Misfit, I don’t know how to insert “any other link.” So sorry if I seem to be playing the Damsel in Distress card, but I’m sincerely ignorant and want to learn.

That’s fine @Love_my_doggie. It took me a while to figure it out too.

So put the text where you want the link to appear in quotation marks.

“They will only see the text in between the quotation marks”

Then put a :

I’d like one of these

See if you can do it.

http://pastebin.com/e3P4b594

Note the quotations marks and colon.

Output is Your Question

Right under the answer box is a quick show.
Copy the link from its origin.
Quotation mark. Word that you want to use. Quotation mark. Colon. Paste link. Check in preview box, if it’s red, you got it!

Thank you, my sweet and understanding friends. I’ll give this a try.

If you know what a URL is, then what you’re doing is pasting a “friendly text label” next to the URL for a link, separated by a colon, and with no extra spaces on either side of the colon.

If you don’t know what a URL is, then you need to look that up. It’s defined in other places better than I can hope to do it here.

Every question on Fluther has a unique URL. As a matter of fact, each RESPONSE on Fluther also has a unique URL. (If you hover your cursor to the right of the “Flag as…” link on every response you should be able to make the “Permalink for this response” link appear. Go ahead and click on that link. I dare you. It won’t hurt a bit.) That will take you to the specific URL for any individual response, so if you want to link to a specific response, you’ll want to click on the permalink so that you can easily acquire the response’s URL for pasting.

So, for example, to show how to link to Your Profile, all you need to do is type
“Your Profile, (You can also include tags, and I’ll show that process, too!)” : http://www.fluther.com/users/Love_my_doggie/ and just leave out the spaces on either side of the colon. (Links without “friendly text” will be highlighted the way links usually are, as you can see in this example.)

There are some caveats.

Many links, such as the extremely long strings that one finds on shopping sites such as Amazon, can become hashed in this process, so be aware of that and consider using URL-shortening services to make your long URL behave better. In addition to the foregoing, Wikipedia, for one, often includes underscore characters in the URL which seem to play hell with the “friendly text” tagging that Fluther uses, so watch out for that, too.

URL shorteners can often be very helpful, so that a URL such as “http://www.fluther.com/users/Love_my_doggie/” can be shortened to http://goo.gl/qDwsUJ (which is a real link, you might notice). That’s not so much, but URLs containing hundreds of characters can also be shortened to much more manageable length and handling.

This question is about salt and pepper.

^^Above, I referenced another thread in the way you want to know how to do. What I did to get the first two words red and underlined, and linked to the webpage about salt and pepper, is this:
1) Put quotation marks before and after the word.
2)Put a colon after the last quotation mark.
3)Copied the url and pasted it after the colon. (The url is this: http://www.fluther.com/1/whats-so-special-about-salt-and-pepper/)

Here is what it should look like “behind the scenes” (take away the space after the colon, though):
“This question”: http://www.fluther.com/1/whats-so-special-about-salt-and-pepper/ is about salt and pepper.

Note that anything ending with .com/.org, etc. will automatically go into “link” mode: google.com, wikipedia.org, umb.edu

@Love_my_doggie: Did you get it?