BB Code instruction recommendation.

[Todd Howard]

Profile Linking says that links to profiles are "generally inserted automatically when mentioning a user" despite several mentions of users not having links to their profiles inserted, indicating either the instruction being vestigial from a removed function or is simply exceedingly poor and non-descriptive; would recommend either removing or editing it.

 

[AztecCroc]

Profile Linking says that links to profiles are "generally inserted automatically when mentioning a user" despite several mentions of users not having links to their profiles inserted, indicating either the instruction being vestigial from a removed function or is simply exceedingly poor and non-descriptive; would recommend either removing or editing it.

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You have to use an @ before the name to trigger that, and it doesn't always work for users with spaces in their names.
@Todd Howard
See.

 

[Todd Howard]

Testing it with your name, @AztecCroc.

Edit: having confirmed that this does work, my recommendation that the instructions on the BB Code subsection of the Help section be changed to be more clear on this stands.