Specific link question

Authors & Readers
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Oh brother. @Corin 's either gonna love this question or hate it.

So for a joke, in my latest story, I wanna link to “a FAQ/Comment section” of a fictional website, but for fun, I want to make the link—if you click it—actually scroll down to that story’s comment section.

Now, there is a button on the page (as part of the normal function of GKS/GSS) that goes to the comment section of the story and, there are various buttons around the GKS/GSS site that goes to the stories comment section rather than the story top, but, is it possible to make that happen as a link? or otherwise make a link that does what that button does?

(you’re either gonna love or hate this question:sweat_smile:)

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Well, if you press on the comment button to open the story instead of the normal heading the address bar has the #comments at the end of the address for that story and it goes straight to the comments section, so possibly using that link would work?

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OH MY GOD it worked.

Oh fuck. I know it’s not a big deal to anyone except me, but this is fantastic.
This is using GKS comment section to continue the story as like… a fourth-wall-breaking, open, public RP session with a character from the story above it.
Oh my god, I’m so happy I could explode. This is amazing. This is art.

I mean, it’s on a microscopic scale, but still—//vibrates with joy

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I’ve given myself insomnia with how happy this has made me.

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My eyes begin to spiral as my voice deepens and slows. “Time to sleep oh Wondrous Spider Author. You cannot resist the call to slumber.”

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Glad I could help!

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Cool that you managed that all with me sleeping peacefully. I’m happy that Spiders is happy. and thanks to @NANOwriter for giving the best answer possible!

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If you want to, read the story and leave a question for Mr.Pipe Expert.

Though I won’t be offended if you don’t; the story is very outside of your cup of tea.

It was none-the-less fun turning your website into a fully open, Community-wide Interactive RP (without even needing to hotwire any tech, or ask for convoluted feature requests!).

I think it’s genuinely a new kind of… storytelling concept.

Like, imagine a large scale Latex dronifier like the one from Neon’s Rubber and Capes story, or a Pheromone hypnotizer like from Twan’s stories, and then at the end of the story, there’s a link to a comment section / Q&A where you-the-reader can literally ask that character questions and tease bits of hidden lore, or just RP with him in his universe.

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It’s scintillatingly fun. Even just thinking of the possibilities.

AND. when later readers read the story, there’ll be a bigger and bigger scroll of new material in the comment section, pertinent to the story.

It basically becomes its own community Interactive story RP

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Thank you for the question.
Our agent assures us Mr.Pipe Expert will give you a fair answer if and when he reads it.

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Right. that was fun.

I think Mr. Pipe Expert is going to retire into the ether now.
Maybe in a few month’s time I’ll do another “the second half of the story is a Public / open-community RP.”

If the inspiration takes you, feel free to steal the idea and do your own versions. I imagine some of the other authors here, could do some great things with it.

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