content: WRONG! Voat code is broken for "SHARE A LINK"  (I am not talking about button I was forced to use entitled "DISCUSS" I am talking about bug in "SHARE A LINK".) 9 people in this thread keep thinking because of OTHER voat bugs in link detection, that I am talking about formatting a comment, I am only mentioning that I AM CORRECT that a bug exists in "SUBMIT A LINK" and yet I got voted down to -5 for the following FACTUAL information to prove it : Consult RFC Uniform Resource Identifier specification 3986 (for all web browsers) : http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt As anyone can see in most URLS (with URI portion) Slashes may appear "/" and in fact your revised url trick has several throughout. Also the letters h and t and p may occur anywhere in any order And of course Colon ":" is fully permitted in internet standard in a URI portion of a URL The url I used and showed works in all web browsers and is emitted by that archiving site itself. The URL standard is quite strict for characters and escaping characters. a Forward slash in a URL is NOT ILLEGAL nor is my URL illegal for having http in it or a colon in that section (so long as it does not START with a colon) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#appendix-A : fragment = ( pchar / "/" / "?" ) pchar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" / "@" unreserved = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~" pct-encoded = "%" HEXDIG HEXDIG sub-delims = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")" / "" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="    ":" is in pchar, which is in fragment, so : is allowed In current defective voat code for the button "SHARE A LINK" no amount of text adornment around the link, short of removing the additional LEGAL colon placed in the link by archive sites themselves, will allow the link to be submitted azt all to voat. TL/DR : Voat is provable broken code, and @sniper98g is incorrect according to official internet standards