Giving Credit (for links) where credit is due

[DanRathbun]

Well I tried …

:sad_face:

@sjdorst

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.

I tried manually editing the markdown link, instead.

@sjdorst

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?

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)