A few things: the points system is amazingly useless, plus you can’t respond to a thread without contributing points to someone, even if you would prefer to subtract points or at least not add to anyone. Also, call me a conspiracy theorist but I grew up on the internet and its my opinion that the new mises.org navigation system as well as the new community as well as the disrepair of this old community are entirely intentional. The new navigation of the main website is a brilliant way to shut off anyone trying to find media on mises.org, it wasn’t always like that. And since these forum problems can be noticed by a 5 year old and fixed by a high schooler I feel its reasonable to conclude that they remain unfixed intentionally.
Anyways, how do you link to someone’s post? I know a few workaround ways to do it, but normal forums just have a button or link at the top of each post that says, for example, “Post #12345”. You would right click that and copy the link location to produce something like the OP did here: