With the .com, .net, and .org, this can be annoying. I did notice that most sections (but not all) had the "standard set" of reminder links to where to post, the approved tags, how to link (which has a link to the linking shortcuts), and display escape characters and code, but that the initial reply form does not (the preview, however, does). Do you think it would be best to do it in the initial preview, or perhaps maybe on submit, sending them instead to the preview if present with the explanation? (Incidentally, most of the times I see this actually seem to occur in the CB, but that appears to be my limited experience, however.)

And, out of curiousity, are there ever valid times to send them to such a link?

Actually, I may have found an answer to the last of my questions as I was composing this, since I found it very difficult to link to an anchor (#wheredoipost, #linking, and $code) via id shortcut (id:9953) for a node (Site How To) that comes back with a large number of search results when I tried to use "site how to;#anchor" or "id://9953#anchor".

In reply to Re: Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by atcroft
in thread Warn people who have perlmonks in a URL? by tilly

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.