Self-Linking Etiquette/rules On The Forum

[domesticactivist]

I used to script but haven't for years. I already posted all those entries and the trick is knowing what the correlating post is on this site to link to. Does that make sense? The names of the posts on this site have numbers thrown in which I'm assuming are some sort of database unique identifier which I can't predict.

It seems I'd have to look at the links, click through my entries for the correct post to link to for each link, then change the link to the new one. This isn't such a big deal when posting a new blog, but for thirty-some old ones it's daunting.

[domesticactivist]

Hm. The titles do seem the same aside from the identifiers. I think it would be possible to write a script that figured out the whole title from part of it. However, it would probably have to access this site in ways that aren't approved.

[Skylark]

I don't think you would lose too much by simply stripping out the linkbacks. You've got the articles organized well enough that I can follow a story if I'm inclined. Then going forward you can get the linkbacks going within celiac.com.

You could still do it in code with a hash table, but by the time you had collected all the links you would be done by hand...

[kareng]

Couldn't follow any of that. could you speak American please?

Glad someone knows how this stuff works.

[nikki-uk]

Couldn't follow any of that. could you speak American please?

Glad someone knows how this stuff works.

Yes.