Would it be possible to support permalinks to posts? If it already is, can you advise on how to use, and possibly make this easy to use from the post itself (e.g. a button to display said link)?

Some example use cases I can think of:

- NA contest threads... a user posts "score updated on page X"... but page numbers are ambiguous since we have the ability to change posts per page. The ability to link to the post would be super.
- Redundant threads... a user asks a question that has been answered before, though the answer may be in a thread that has gone off-the-rails. Rather than link the thread and say "good luck! it's there, keep reading", provide a permalink to the specific post with the answer.

I just realized that this might get messy in the case where the permalinked post belongs to a person in the user's foe list, but I'd hope the software can overcome and compensate for that.

I'm not sure I understand, but I'm pretty sure you can link to specific posts.

I'm going to try and see if it works.

Edit: nope I was thinking of something else

So it is possible. If you take the url from the thread:
http://nintendoage.com/forum/mess...

and add post=# to the end
http://nintendoage.com/forum/mess...

it will take you to an exact post. Good luck finding the correct number though  

I bet the number after "messid=" part of the URL in a quote window would be important.