Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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I want to advice to always supply the original link and not the redirected one;

For example:

http://www.sawmovie.com/
and not
http://movies.break.com/saw

Why? At some point the original link will stop working.

Quoting Voltaire53:

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Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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I want to advice to always supply the original link and not the redirected one;
I also want to advice to leave out any unnecessary characters and to use the original characters for clarity and uniformity;
I sincerely hope everybody and Ken agrees on this.

I generally agree in principle though it significantly slows down adding links if you can't just cut and paste so I don't think I'd 'ban' any links which don't fit the criteria.

I agree

Quoting Martin_Zuidervliet:

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Quoting Patsa:

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Why? At some point the original link will stop working.

No, the original link generally always stays the same while the redirecting one could change over time.

Just wanted to say that I agree with Martin's assessment of this.

KM

Ken could potentially add logic to replace escape strings that represent valid URL characters, but not really needed unless he feels it presents a nicer feel.

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http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:160502
and not
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:160502~T0

Both are valid links.  The fact that they display the exact same page is no way to tell if the ~T0 is "extra".  The website could be doing something different based on those characters.