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

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.