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    On [main], you are expected to write proper English (as advertised on English Language & Usage), but here on Meta Stack Exchange it's more important to have freehand circles, so please edit your post, otherwise I'll have to flag you (see the FAQ). If you're unsure how to use your keyboard, Super User is the right place to ask. There's no Q&A site about unicorns yet, but you can suggest one on Area 51. Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 11:48
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    Very nice, but what about user pages and links to specific posts? Like [main#12345] or [meta.user#12345]... Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 12:06
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    @fretje: Nope, we're not doing that. It'll take longer to copy the id out of the URL into your [main#...] markup than just copying the whole link. (Besides that, there's also a technical reason: Comments are rendered on the fly, so you'd have to do a DB lookup everytime such a comment is displayed) Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 12:11
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    @fretje: Do you really have the ids of posts you frequently link to memorized? Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 12:16
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    Oops... not as I had in mind... Ok, but I understand adding "/q/6254529" to the url would be easy, but then the problem would be what to put as the link text? In that case you could simply expand the url to stackoverflow.com/q/6254529 but that might make this feature indeed be too "complex". I was just thinking out loud... forgive me ;-) Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 17:34
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    Yay! Two more requests: [how-to-ask], [how-to-answer] (and the anchored versions when they're created). Commented Jun 6, 2011 at 20:05
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    And [user:@balpha] adds more awesome to SE :) Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 7:46
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    The site-links are nice, but inconsistent: why don't [superuser.se] ([superuser.se]) and [askubuntu.se] ([askubuntu.se]) generate links? Sure, [su] (Stack Exchange) and [ubuntu.se] (Ask Ubuntu) work, but why do I have to remember these special cases? Thanks! Commented Jun 24, 2011 at 8:56
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    Could we also have [stackapps] (or [stackapps.se], or even [sa]), please? Commented Jul 18, 2011 at 0:27
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    Hey, just found myself wanting [stackapps]. Poor, stackapps, it gets no love. Commented Oct 28, 2011 at 14:23
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    Can we puhhlllease have [mso] instead of [metaso]? Or [meta.so]? No one remembers the [metaso], it doesn't even make sense. Commented Nov 3, 2012 at 12:29
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    Can we add [sites] (to stackexchange.com/sites obviously)? Commented Aug 15, 2013 at 11:18
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    Hey, [meta.so] and [careers] should be added. Thanks! Commented Aug 29, 2014 at 17:28
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    @Abel This answer was posted on Meta Stack Overflow before Meta Stack Exchange existed. MSO has a main site, MSE does not. Commented Sep 13, 2015 at 5:48
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    [mcve] would be so helpful on Database Administrators Commented Apr 20, 2018 at 15:37