Posted on 06/06/2010 12:58:45 PM PDT by don-o
Talking about a post that consists of link after link after after link. Do they bother you? Or do you find them useful?
I smell Rick Roll.
I think it would be better etiquette for a Freeper who has a zillion links to post them on his/her own FR personal page and just post a link to that.
I should clarify:
A link only commentary post I don’t mind, but a NEW THREAD consisting of, say, 5 or 10 words only and then a link is....abusive, I think.
They’ve got to give away a little MORE.
One can scroll - But, I have concerns about the unnecessary wear and tear on my scroll finger.
I find that they are an incentive to move on to a different thread.
You mean where somebody posts to an existing thread and the post (pre-HTML-coded, and ready to post again and again) includes 20 - 50 links the poster believes are somewhat relevant to the subject of the thread? Yeah, I find them very annoying. I mean, how hard would it be to post one link to his/her FR homepage where all those links could be found if the reader cares to investigate, rather than have all those links thrown in everybody’s face? For example, one link that says, “Links to every global warming hoax article and column ever published!” would work just fine.
Personally, I scroll right past those massive vanity posts.
They tend to just clutter up the thread.
FRegards,
LH
Talking about a post that consists of link after link after after link. Do they bother you? Or do you find them useful?
I find them mildly annoying.
When I hit one of them I just keep scrolling without even attempting to stop and read. Especially one that is basically and entire link. That’s why an ingnore feature would be good so that you could place those who do that on ignore and you’d never see them.
I just usually don’t bother. Like the blog posts, if the information isn’t all posted here, why post? The exception of course are excerpted news stories, but then you usually get the gist of the article with the allowed paragraphs.
I detest them and scroll past, every time, and I have broadband. Sometimes, someone will use HTML code to have a few descriptive words, and I may click it. But a naked link, without a single word, nope. It feels as someone is telling an obscure joke, and I’m supposed to “get it.”
If one is going to post a link, then I want to see at least a sentence fragment describing what is at the link. Life’s too short to wait for potentially stupid web pages to load.
Looks interesting. But, I am getting so sick of Firefox I’m about ready to ditch it for Chrome.
Loving the responses. I’m hoping a few of those who do it read this thread and realize how annoying we find them.
I don’t care for chrome myself. I like flock which is a firefox browser myself.
Same here. I do not aspire to “Board Nazi” status; but there are things that help a board and things that do not help.
Care to share your thoughts on this?
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