Well, I beg to differ. The “permalink” 
icon is fairly well known. We may hedge a bit and call it “share” to appeal to a slighly broader, maybe less Internet-savvy audience, but clearly it is the gimme a link button. That’s what it does. It gimmes you the link.
So the logic of …
- I need a link to this post
- Because I want to share it somewhere on the Internet
is, in my opinion, awfully close to …
- I need a link to this post
- Because I want to share it in this new topic I’m about to create
I don’t think that’s much of a stretch at all.
(Also note that we decided only incoming internal links are displayed below a post, because we felt that outgoing links are already sort of obvious, being visibly in the post already. We do track both directions, of course. Not sure if you were clear on this @TailOfTruth)
