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[SOLVED] Looking for help linking to a specific comment on Reddit

Posted by boxer_dogs_dance
Tags: social media, ask.advice, reddit, solved

Hi,

Thanks for looking at this. There is a specific comment in a reddit conversation that I want to share in a few different places. It's important to me.

I tried this a few years ago when I wanted to participate in r/bestof and I could not make sense of the instructions that they provided.

I am not a technologically skilled person but I have learned a few tricks using markdown while participating here on tildes.

Can someone please give advice and possibly help me troubleshoot ? I will be returning to my computer and hopefully trying out suggestions about four hours from the time stamp on this post.

4 comments

  1. [4]
    Buddy
    (edited )
    Link
    The button right under the comment that says “permalink” is what you’re looking for. When you click that, it opens a page that is what you’re looking for — a link to that specific comment — and...

    The button right under the comment that says “permalink” is what you’re looking for. When you click that, it opens a page that is what you’re looking for — a link to that specific comment — and you can just copy the link from your address bar, assuming you’re using a browser and not a dedicated app.

    Edit: Just in case my explanation wasn't clear, I opened the top askreddit post via desktop browser to quickly take a screenshot and highlight the button, as seen here. Once you've clicked it, the page it loads is a direct link to that comment and looks like this. Just copy the URL of that page from the address bar (or you could also just right-click the permalink button and select "copy link" without the need to load the page itself first).
    If you're on a mobile app, there should be a "share" button or something equally obvious, plus you mentioned getting back to your computer, so I'm assuming you did mean via desktop.

    8 votes
    1. [2]
      Wes
      (edited )
      Link Parent
      You can also append ?context=n to the URL to include some preceding comments, where n is the number of ancestors to include. The permalinked comment will remain highlighted. This is sometimes...
      • Exemplary

      You can also append ?context=n to the URL to include some preceding comments, where n is the number of ancestors to include. The permalinked comment will remain highlighted. This is sometimes useful for showing the full context of a conversation, while still putting emphasis on a lower comment.

      14 votes
      1. whbboyd
        Link Parent
        Context links also don't include replies to the context comments other than the linked comment. All Reddit comment links should be context links, to be honest. If you actually want to exclude the...

        Context links also don't include replies to the context comments other than the linked comment.

        All Reddit comment links should be context links, to be honest. If you actually want to exclude the parent comment for some reason, you can say context=0.

        4 votes
    2. boxer_dogs_dance
      Link Parent
      Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. And yes I will use a browser on desktop.

      Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.

      And yes I will use a browser on desktop.

      6 votes