You used to be able to just post the url without any tags into the Quick reply and the forum software would wrap the tags around properly.
It doesn't do it now (or at least in Safari, maybe other browsers are working correctly)
When I posted before it wrapped the tags like this: (which doesn't work)
https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=x76EpIUPLpI
instead of like this:
THE PERFECT WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!! - YouTube