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Abbreviations for common hyperlinks in comments and chat

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There is a comprehensive list of all the magic links, however, I've been unable to work out what the magic link for a Meta site that aren't a Stack Exchange subdomain, such as Stack Overflow Meta and ...
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I know shortcodes exist to mention Stack Exchange sites, like [SO] for Stack Overflow, [SF] for Server Fault, or [SU] for Super User. I also know third-level Stack Exchange sites can be mentioned as [...
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Is there a specific reason why magic links such as [so], [meta.se], etc. do not work in questions and answers, too? Is this by design? They would be handy, especially in the meta sites.
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I just read about magic links for the first time from this Meta Stack Exchange post. The accepted answer had a good amount of useful magic links to help articles such as [mcve], [ask], and [answer], ...
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This answer from 2013 states that: flags are now rendered using the same "mini-markdown" renderer used for comments. The help center on comment formatting includes a list of shorthand ...
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Currently, as a Sci-Fi moderator, if I want to send a new user to read up on how to use the story-dentification tag in a comment, I have to manually link to https://scifi.stackexchange.com/tags/story-...
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There are a ton of magic links which expand in the comments, some of which are main, meta, or community specific, and some which are templatized (on the surface, I'm not sure if they are explicitly ...
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Since the current Stack Exchange guideline requires capitalization for links, should we also capitalize (I think we should) the result of magic links? E.g., hence using [edit] will result in Edit ...
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