will give you the hoped for response. Anything after the “?” you added ultimately goes to the target of the link (in this case meta.discourse.org).
I’ve tried - multiple times - to repeat a link in a way that credits the original provider of the link. It appears that Discourse does some strange stuff in order to give credit.
For instance, here is @sketch3d_de link - **as copied using “copy link address” then pasted somewhere else:
I tried, while in the reply editor, to duplicate this by putting the full link into the link url in the “add link” dialog box. The result - a link that goes nowhere! (And one of the things I tried was replacing the %xx references with their original characters.)
My reason for taking this public, is this:
Does anyone know how to re-use a link in a way that results in the original provider of the link getting credit for click throughs?
I tried manually editing the markdown link, instead.
Manually editing seems to work.
Ie, I changed the link from:
[Discourse Meta: Description of various user states in Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/description-of-various-user-states-in-discourse/35171)
to:
[Discourse Meta: Description of various user states in Discourse](https://forums.sketchup.com/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org%2Ft%2Fdescription-of-various-user-states-in-discourse%2F35171&topic_id=44212)
… But this doesn’t seem to have the other user’s member id within it.
ADD: … so I manually added '&u=sketch3d_de" to the end of the copied link URL.
It now reads:
[Discourse Meta: Description of various user states in Discourse](https://forums.sketchup.com/clicks/track?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeta.discourse.org%2Ft%2Fdescription-of-various-user-states-in-discourse%2F35171&topic_id=44212&u=sketch3d_de)
I often do this when there is a lot of background in that post.
In the case that was linked, I thought it extreme to have inter-thread links and wanted to make it look like the link in a quote block.
(I think we found the working solution,… Steve noted that we need to use the right-click copy link, and the member handle then added with “&u=member_handle” at the end of the URL string.)