How to tell if a link has been posted

Huckleberry

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Now it just so happens that every once in a while a happy HornFans denizen will come upon a link in an e-mail or from another board or wherever that they find interesting. They will have the urge to post it on HornFans. The instructions below are based on the premise that you have a link you want to share and have decided to ignore Huckleberry's HornFans.com Link Theory found here.
So, you've got what you think is an interesting story. But you don't want to go sifting through every thread from the last week to see if it has been posted. Let's take an example case. On this forum, whickums has posted a link to the following story:

The Link

Let's say I happened to come across the story from somewhere else. How could I check that I wouldn't be making a duplicate post? Perhaps I want to be nice to the moderators and not give them extra work. Or maybe I'm scared of having one of the 200 volunteer HornFans pseudo-moderators follow my post with "already posted." What do I do?

That's where the handy search feature comes in. The url to whickums' story is http://www.msnbc.com/news/925113.asp#BODY. All I have to do is click on Search at the top of any HornFans.com forum page. Make sure that it's set to All Forums and All Posts and then enter the URL
into the search field. It's amazingly simple to use. And to make it even easier, I could enter only part of the URL, for example I could drop the #BODY anchor in case whickums didn't post it. Go ahead, give it a try. You'll be amazed.

Sure, sometimes you don't give a ****, and I understand. But if you're going to care enough to type "Sorry if this has already been posted" then go ahead and search. Because you're probably not really all that sorry if you don't.

Thank you.
 
Neat. I'm an example.
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case in point....

I was going to post this linkThe Link and I really didn't feel like scanning the board.

but I did out of respect for you ********.
 
I just felt like seeing what the last thread was and saving it from death. BTW, shouldn't this be stickied? This is a great thread
 
some of the best stuff i don't see the first time it is posted.

for example, if someone had posted something like this thread a second time, i might have seen it before reading it right now.
 
Seen hotter Links at Saltlick......I give that joke a .375....
 
The search won't help you though if the same story appears on various news sites, as is especially common when the AP puts out something and all the online sports pages use the same story and nobody else ever writes their own release.
 
holy crap, I just realized that this thread was started 4 years ago!
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good nonetheless!
 

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