@hawkeye10,
If I understand the situation, the link is visible if you hover over the colored text and look in the lower left corner of the screen. I absolutely do this if I don't know the op fairly well. The text could indicate a youtube, for example, and the translation at the bottom might come out "spamyoutodeath.com.
I haven't bothered picking up the technique, but if you use the quote button, you can pretty well see what they did to the original link.