Sniffnoy comments on The Majority Is Always Wrong

Sniffnoy 3 Nov 2011 23:26 UTC
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Please don’t use URL shorteners. I want to upvote this for informativeness but aagh...
- Nornagest 3 Nov 2011 23:38 UTC
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  I wouldn’t have, but the markup here interacts badly with URLs containing close parentheses. If you know of a workaround, I’d be happy to hear it.
  
  EDIT: …or I could just look at the extended markup help. There, fixed.
  - thomblake 3 Nov 2011 23:40 UTC
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    Simply put a backslash before the closing parenthesis. I.E. to link to “http://example.com/foo(bar)″ type ”link\)”
    - Vladimir_Nesov 3 Nov 2011 23:45 UTC
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      to link to “http://example.com/foo(bar))″ type “[link](http://example.com/foo(bar\\)″
      
      “[link](http://example.com/foo(bar\\))″, rather.