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The "show help" box at the lower right of the comment field gives you information on the markdown methods for emphasis and links and such.
I'm pretty sure that you just use links to your other posts for follow up links, unless I'm missing something about your question.
What about profiles? How can I create one? I see that many users have profiles: http://lesswrong.com/search/results?cx=015839050583929870010%3A-802ptn4igi&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=profile&sa=Search&siteurl=lesswrong.com%2F&ref=lesswrong.com%2Fsearch%2Fresults%3Fq%3Dprofile%26sa%3DSearch%26siteurl%3Dlesswrong.com%26ref%3Dlesswrong.com%26ss%3D703j91859j7&ss=760j108736j7
(by the way: is there a way to create shorter URLs for simple searches? I tried http://lesswrong.com/search/results?q=profile but that comes up empty)
Use a url shortener. Adf.ly will even pay you for it.
Generally a good idea. But that's not what I meant. I mean a generally short search URL for less wrong where I can just add the query term. I can shorten the abive via adf.ly but I can't modify that to also search for q=parenting, q=ai, q=tags...
what about the profile page? how do I create these?
Set up an account on the Wiki, with the same name as your LessWrong account. Then make a user page for it. After a day, LW will automatically use that to make your profile page. (Thanks to gwern for informing me about this.)
Thank you. I'm just creating http://wiki.lesswrong.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=User:Gunnar_Zarncke and hope that it will get linked to http://lesswrong.com/user/Gunnar_Zarncke/
Halt. I have a problem here: Saving doesn't seem to work. The page stays empty and I can't leave the edit area.. Same for my talk page. The wiki appears to be slow overall.
Sounds like you've been hit by the edit filter: I've been trying out disabling page creation for users younger than 3 or 4 days. It's supposed to be giving you a warning explaining that, though.
Indeed. Now it works. There definitely was no warning or anything related.
Try again, maybe? I haven't had a problem with the wiki before...
I still can't save. They page stays empty. A few more notes:
No problem with markdown.
As for the follow-up links I checked again and these are normal links. I'm somewhat surprised that they are used that consistently.
Can you also provide a tip on tags?
I didn't answer about tags because I don't know of a guide.
I just found that if you search on tag [word that you think might be a good tag], you'll get lw articles with that tag, but that would be a process of exploration rather than knowing about common tags.
Then I assume that tags are used by intuition. I just invented a tag and will use it consistently.
I found that it is possible to list all posts with a tag via a short URL, e.g. on parenting it is
http://lesswrong.com/tag/parenting/
But this doesn't show my postings with that tag. Can it be that only posts in Main are found by that? If so is there a different shortcut that will (also) lists hits in Comments?
discussion/parenting. Also, I think tagged articles are sorted by old first, opposite to most things.