Weird bug with post tags

[Jennifer]

I have found a crazy bug that I'm not sure why it's happening.

In my game I'm modding, I like to keep a list on the first post of what has occurred in the Events section.

In the Events section I use the post tags. For instance:

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[post=#5049295]Draft Order[/post]

But, everytime I put in the post # for the individual post and press "preview" the post number will change to the post number for the first post in the game. This happens whether I copy/paste the post number for the individual post I want to reference or whether I manually enter in the number.

If I again correct it then the correction stays and all is right with the world.

Every time I add a new post tag it again overwrites my inputted post number to the first post number and I have to correct it again (the old ones stay corrected).

Hope that makes sense!

[Mr. Flay]

I've been using the post tag extensively the last few days and haven't seen this.

Are you possibly forgetting to remove the # when you edit in the new tag? In other words if the lynch happened in post 345, you can either use [post=#5069498]345[/post] or [post=#5069498]Event Link[/post]. Based on what just happened when I wrote this post, I'm guessing you're trying to put the unique id of the post and it's interpreting that as a post 5,345,789 that doesn't exist in your thread. It then defaults to a link to the first post.

[Jennifer]

Ahh maybe that's what it is. I'll give it a try later and let you know if I see it again! Thanks! I didn't realize that I could simply use the post # versus the unique number at the end (which I was using). Much appreciated!

[Mr. Flay]

Yeah, the Post Number from the thread is easier to use, but only works within one thread (until you hit Preview and it gets automagically converted to [post=#nnnnnnnn]). You can also use the unique identifier but you have to put the [post=

#

...] in yourself in that case, or else it tries to interpret it as some impossibly large post in the current thread.

[Jennifer]

By the way, that worked like a dream. Thank you again!