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SI - Site Forums : Silicon Investor - Legacy Interface Discussion (2004-2011)
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To: Ira Player who wrote (1873)9/30/2004 4:50:52 PM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell  Read Replies (4) of 6035
 
I think the advantage of using shortcuts on SI, at least for me, was for readability as opposed to saving time while composing. For example, typing #reply-20585960 is much more cumbersome than simply cutting and pasting a complete URL such as Message 20585960. However, as you can see from the finished result, the shortcut flows better and thus makes the paragraph easier to read, especially when using multiple URLs.

Thus, if such a shortcut were still available on SI and I took advantage of it, I'd probably rather not have SI automatically expand it to a URL since it would defeat my purpose in using it in the first place. Therefore, unless shortcuts were never to be used on SI again, expanding them in existing posts and writing them back to the database would be counter-productive IMO.

- Jeff
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