question!

[nonheinous.livejournal.com]

How do you make the 'From here' and 'To here' tags without entering into a catch-22 trap?

Say I start at place X and want to move to Y; so I make a post at X and end off with 'To ...', but I won't be able to know the exact link until I actually make the post at Y.

But I can't know the link to use under 'From ...' in the post at Y if I haven't made the post at X.

Yet I've seen so many people manage this without editing... how do you guys do it?

Thanks!

Comments

[moarnomsplz]

I've got paid accounts, because I can't stand not to edit (anal-retentive, what? XD), but here's what I do: I write both posts before I actually post either, post the first with [to west 1-a], or wherever I'm going, in non-live text, then post the second with a live "From" link, and go back and edit the "To" to make it a link. If I didn't have a paid, I'd just reply to the first post in the sequence with the "To" link.

If that makes sense. XD

:3

[nonheinous.livejournal.com]

yep, but I've seen people do it without editing! (at least, the 'Edited at...' thing doesn't appear at the bottom of the comment.)

[moarnomsplz]

That is magic on a level I can't replicate. XD

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

Make the 'to' link to the entire post, not just your specific post?

[nonheinous.livejournal.com]

How is unheroed doing it here: http://damned.livejournal.com/1103963.html

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[burningvigor.livejournal.com]

In that case it was because I was linking into a thread that was already made (S.T.'s), but otherwise with a journal where I don't have a paid account I just make both posts and then respond to the first comment with the link, like I did here (http://damned.livejournal.com/1104269.html?thread=77953677#t77953677)!

[threepwood]

I edit with my two dudes with the paid account. For the one without, I usually just put the [To] tag in a separate comment, once I've gotten the next location comment posted. I like to link directly to the threads I'm in- helps me with my tracking post later.

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

This. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having a moving tag in a separate comment, and I'd much rather have that than to link to an entire post that may have literally hundreds of other comments posted to it (takes forever to load, and then you have to sift through all the other comments or even browse to other pages to find the relevant comment thread).

Of course, if you're in a rush to move your character out of a thread but don't have time to post the next post (say, you have to leave for work or school right away so you don't have time to post the next tag in the next room, but you don't want to make your former threadmates wait all day for you to do that), then linking to the whole post with the room they're going to move to is fine, too.

[diamondstorm]

Some people just link to the top post and not the individual thread-- I prefer to link to the actual thread in question, which is easy if you're threading with other people. Like in the example one you posted below, the person linked to the other person's post (S.T.'s) instead of linking their own.

[nonheinous.livejournal.com]

heh, good point. I didn't catch that. >_>

[purgatio]

Haha, no worries.~ I was worse at that when I first started here.

[gald_digger]

I do it by putting up my second post first (with the [from here] link) and then going back and making the first post, linking to the new thread.

It's chronologically backwards, but it works!

hello edit for grammar fail

[ryuuzaki]

I usually do what gald_digger said, although sometimes I edit my posts to add the link (since I edit a lot anyway).

The way I do the "From here" that makes that feasible is to always link to the *first* post of every thread, not the last one. Linking to the last one or linking to the top post (but not the individual thread) makes it really difficult to backtrack/stalk/etc. If you link to the last comment in the previous thread instead of the first, you have to hit "parent" a lot to find the top of the thread if you're trying to read it (and it also doesn't work with the technique mentioned by gald_digger), and if you link only to the top post instead of to your own thread within it... well, some locations get 2-3 pages of posts, so it can make that thread harder to find. :)

[continuum.livejournal.com]

seconding the above two comments I always link to the top comment of any particular thread with the "from" link since that makes it easier to go back and re-read without having to search for the beginning of the thread, and yeah, I do it chronologically backwards, too -- type out both posts, post the second, and then post the first with the link to the second.