Any way to link another person's answer to the same post from within your answer to the same post?  I tried the following:  I took the share link of the OP's post put it in the browser tab to get the complete (redirected) url. I copied that url and added it as a link to my post. However, on clicking on that link, I was expecting the web page to scroll. Instead I got a round trip, and the page refreshed.
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I've noticed that link-ids are not rewritten. I would much prefer it if they were.  For instance, lets say I'm on . And, let's say I want to link to a specific answer like  by @Eric. It would be nice if an inserted link on the page to that question would get rewritten to be href="#3346729". This would prevent the need for my browser to reload the page. I would save a lot of time, and with this extra time I could help even more people.  This is of course only referencing the html to be rendered. I don't care at all about what sits in the SO DB... Though personally I wouldn't want to fix my internal linking to make assumptions about the transport.. That seems silly, but it is not my business. Wikipedia doesn't permit this because it is a bad idea, that's why Wikipedia is one step ahead with the [link generator], and even has [otherprojects:linkgenerators] accessible that make no assumptions about where the questions/answers are currently sitting. Even perlmonks had link generators some 10 years ago, [rt:num], and[id:node].  UPDATE     If you change the display links to be only relative to the current page, you can no longer copy/paste them so that they can be used elsewhere, such as in another SO posting, or another website. – Robert Harvey 1 hour ago   So Dr. Harvey has a point. I looked into how Wikipedia does this, because they're a few steps ahead of Stack Overflow, and apparently all you have to do is not specify the "comment" number.  If you click on this link it will not rerender the page. http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58645/updated-question-plz-reread-please-make-links-to-other-answers-in-the-same-qu#58685  or this link, '#58685`  If however, you click on this link it will http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/58645/updated-question-plz-reread-please-make-links-to-other-answers-in-the-same-qu/58685#58685  So what SO is doing is rendering a different canonical url entirely for the comment at /58685 even though that page is most probably the same, how very dirty.  Update AGAIN  Had to change the links because they changed when I updated the title (another SO bug I guess)
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I browse Stack Overflow quite frequently and I often find that when I come across a helpful answer I want to be able to save the best answer for later. It would be nice if I could save those snippets/answers to my account so later I can quickly find what I was looking for.
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A user walks into Stack&nbsp;Overflow and . The answer for his question is in the first result of a Google search. Well, it is the fourth result, to be precise, but the first link in the discussion under the first link leads there anyway.  Long story short: the question is very simple and the answer is two clicks away in Google. What should I do? Should I give user the link to answer or should I point him to the Google Search results? What is Stack&nbsp;Overflow, a place to learn something (even if it is googling) or a black box "insert question, receive answer" machine?  (Meta&nbsp;Stack&nbsp;Overflow's policies prevent me from posting a link to Google? WTF.)
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Some questions and answers on stackoverfow have broken links. And sometimes it is important links in accepted or most upvoted answers.  If the question is old, and I have no idea of what the link should be pointing to, how can I  tell the author to try to fix it?  In my case, I am refering to  and the link "this entry" in the accepted answer.
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I have a question and have seen others to which the best and most relevant answer (at least the one that solved my particular problem) is placed in the comments to the question as opposed to the answers:   I would like to recognize the commenter as the person who correctly answered the question, but there doesn't seem to be any way to do that. The only thing I could think of was to ask the commenter to repost his comment as an answer, but I cannot figure out a way to contact him. In the meantime the question is sitting unanswered and I am getting other "answers" (leading me to believe that people are not reading the comments and answers already posted before trying to answer it themselves).  How are we supposed to do this?  Note: I don't want to accept the comment as an answer (I agree completely with the answers to this question that comments are comments and answers are answers and they should stay that way). I do wonder if there should be some way to contact people in a reasonable manner (comments on their profile that they must opt in to receiving in email?).
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On two three of the four newest Meta questions, there are posts in the "related" section without a title:    I was curious to see what that was, and the link was a link to an answer. Clicking the link took me to the answer, and the score in the link was the score of the answer, not of the question (in the example above, the answer had score 8 and the question had score 3).  What's also strange is that although it was a link to an answer, it had a question URL (in the example above ).  I saw this happen just recently on several questions on both Meta Stack Exchange and Super User, and I have never seen this happen before. I'm quite sure this is a bug.
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I was answering  question and was trying to post following url in comments but everytime it failed -    I searched on Meta and came across  post and tried the solution posted but url is already encoded and doesn't work.   Is there a way to make this work in comments?
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When following a permalink to an answer that has been deleted, most viewers get to see the question instead. (The browser cannot find the &lt;div id="answer-xx" ...&gt; to scroll to, unless one has enough reputation to see deleted posts.) Most of the time this is nice, but it can be confusing.  For those who cannot see deleted posts:   Could some warning be shown when this happens? If yes, then maybe even including the reason like on ? Such as:     The answer you were linked to has been deleted for reasons of moderation.  An alternative could be to show an actual 404 page. To ensure people can then still find the related question, that question should then be linked on that 404 page too.    I guess I'd rather keep the current behavior instead of a 404 page. I assume showing the question when an answer is deleted is very much on purpose, if only for search engines? I like it too.  Like for some time, following links to deleted answers from the global Inbox did show a 404. In that Inbox, links to answers actually use the URLs for questions. Like  where 75129 really is the answer, not the question. For deleted answers this used to show a 404 for those with limited access rights. But nowadays it always redirects to the full URL, where the browser won't scroll for those who cannot see deleted answers. I like that better.
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So I went to a question I had an answer for and noticed that the op had already voted an answer as being correct. The particular answer had a list of links.   So I thought to myself, wouldn't it be better to have a more complete correct answer instead of having more smaller answers? In other words, instead of adding a new answer I edited the correct one and added the link there.  I find it better for two main reasons: a) the correct answer would be more complete and b) I am not looking for votes, any votes will go to the guy with the correct answer.  In case it matters, the question was:
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I am sure this scenario is familiar to all of you.  You click an unanswered question and after reading the question, you want to help and answer. After you answered, you remain the first and only answerer with a solution.  After 15-20 seconds from your answer posting time, another answer comes up, suggesting exactly the solution you have suggested, but with more text (not necessarily more detail).  After a minute, more answers pop up with, again, exactly the same solution you have suggested.  After an hour, your answer gets no votes, but the other answers each get at least 1 up-vote, and the one posted right after yours not only has the most votes, but is also accepted.  What would be an elegant solution to stop this? I am sure I am not the only one who is annoyed by this situation.  After speaking to others about this situation, one of them happened to mention in passing about hovering the mouse over the time of the posting to see the accuracy of the time posted, which I did not know about.
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This has been , but a long time ago, and got closed for a rather confusing reason (converting comments to answers is not an "exact duplicate" of converting answers to comments), so I'm going to bring it up again.  I think it makes sense to have a user (not asker) option to convert a comment they posted on a question to an answer on the question, if it turns out it led to the asker figuring out the answer. We've all seen askers reply to comments with "@foo Hey, that was it! Post that as an answer and I'll accept it"; why not make it simple for the user to do that? It seems trivial to implement, and there's no formatting issues like there is going from answers to questions. I'm not sure how it could be "abused", because you need less rep to answer a question than to comment on it. I don't know if the answer's post time should be the time of the comment or the time it was converted; I think probably the latter. I also don't know if the comment should be deleted, left alone, or replaced with a link to the answer; again I think probably the last
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Duplicate questions are "solved" &#8212; it's clear what to do with them, there're tools to deal with them... but what happens when two users post the same answer? This happens a fair bit, particularly on questions with simple answers ("Click this button"-type ones).  Do we upvote both answers, since they are both correct? Do we upvote the first one (although if the answers were posted within a few minutes of each other, after an hour it's impossible to tell as they both show up as "answered 1 hour ago")? Do we upvote the currently highest voted one? Do we upvote one and downvote the other? Do we flag one (seems a little excessive)? Something else?
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Suppose you had a question, and you really want a good answer that would solve your problem, but noticed it was already asked by someone else. However, no one has posted any answers. The question is technically considered "unanswered", but a lot of users who would otherwise bother to give a correct answer probably skip the question completely for some reason.  What should I do in this case?  One idea is to ask a new, completely identical question, in the hope users will notice the new question and post an answer there. But would that go against SE policy?     Note: This is adapted from , but that doesn't cover the case where the original question is unanswered. Also, it is not a duplicate of , as that question asks about getting attention for one's own questions, while this one and the one linked above ask about getting an answer if someone else has already posted the same thing.
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Regarding , made by me, and general questions in this matter. I did receive decent answers on the question that was asked, but it wasn't asked clear enough by me I now see. I do not want to invalidate the answers by completely restructuring the question. Should one post a new question ignoring the other? or Should one refer to their old post and writing a short &quot;because x I reposted this...&quot;?
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More than often I get a lot of itch when I see an answer which contains only a link. For example .  Check this link, it will solve your query..   This answer does not explain in any way why and how it solves the OP's concrete problem without the need to click the link. Also, if the link ever goes down, then the whole answer is completely useless. I am very tempted to flag this as &quot;not an answer&quot; and hope that the moderator understands the hint and converts it into a comment. Can I flag them as such? Related:
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When I browse through other questions to find my answer, sometimes I'll find answers similar to what I'm looking for, and though they don't exactly answer my question, the author might be able to do so. Could we have a feature on SO that will let me request that another user answer my question, in case I find someone who could potentially answer my question?
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When viewing posts by recently active, the last action can generally be linked to directly by clicking the "answered/modified" link. For example, the "answered 5 hours ago" text circled here:    Clicking this takes you to the link https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/312850/the-second-draft-of-our-code-of-conduct-is-available-for-feedback-and-review/?lastactivity  It seems, however, when that /?lastactivity (either answered or modified) occurs somewhere other than the first page of answers, linking directly to the post fails and, instead, links to the question itself. This makes finding the recent activity difficult, particularly when there are many pages of answers. Yes, I can sort the answers by active but not everyone realizes that's an option.  I've reproduced this on , so it's not an MSE-specific issue nor is it apparently related to the responsive layout. I've also seen this behavior on answers that were answered, edited, or deleted.    To reproduce:   Find a question on the Home or Questions/Active page with >30 answers. Click on the last activity link next to the username of the person who performed that action   Using PPCG questions with >60 answers that are newly answered is the most likely to consistently be a good choice as new answers to questions with many existing answers are unlikely to have surfaced above the latter page/s.  See that the end result is identical to loading the question link/does not take you to the answer.   I suppose that it's possible there isn't a way to fix this but, if there is, it'd be nice to have.