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Comments on How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact?

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How can I effortlessly spawn new, unused URLs to the same question on Codidact?

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I'd like to submit links to unanswered Codidact questions, to Reddit, in order to try to get them answered and popularize Codidact.

Although some SubReddits forbid submitting a link already published to any subreddit in the past — to fight spam — the snag is that on many SubReddits, my submitted link never appears because

  1. moderators forget to approve the link,

  2. or I don't have enough karma points and the post automatically is filtered out and removed from view.

Then my submitted link never gets published on the subreddit, thus I'm not spamming, thus this is principled and ethical.

This isn't a hitch for Stack Exchange posts, because I can append integers. Reddit admits the following as unique URLs.

https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3619240 https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3619240/1 ... https://math.stackexchange.com/a/3619240/50

But this fails for Codidact questions.

https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/282135/1 yields "a 404 NOT FOUND" page.

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Don't do it for SE links either! (1 comment)
Don't do it for SE links either!
celtschk‭ wrote over 3 years ago

Adding random integers to SE links isn't a good idea either. While you don't see an effect as the user who follows the link, other, unrelated users may see the effect, as the extra number is supposed to be a user number indicating who posted the link (this is used in particular for some badges). That way you associate that user to the link, which might not be in the interest of that user. While I can't think off-hand of any negative effect to that user, I'd not exclude it to be possible.