What's the overreaction to blind links about?

It's annoying to have a link and nothing to tell us what the link is.

It is lazy.

Even worse is starting a thread about a news story, leaving a blind link, AND not quoting anything from the story.

Pretty f’d up you’d post that

I get it if all they post is the link, but if there is enough context between the title and post I think it's a bit silly to thrash someone over not naming the link, lol

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You know you can name them anything you want right?

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Yeah, so do that correctly and save people a click.

I swear some of you have no clue how to build a thread.

Readers using Chrome (and I'm sure it applies to Firefox, too) can right click the link and choose "inspect". It'll show the URL in the inspection page.

But people shouldn't have to do that. And if you label something as one thing but it takes me somewhere totally different, I'd probably RA the poster. That's a messed up thing to do with all the malware out on the web.

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Readers using Chrome (and I'm sure it applies to Firefox, too) can right click the link and choose "inspect". It'll show the URL in the inspection page

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Just hover over it.

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Nobody does this.

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. Readers using Chrome (and I'm sure it applies to Firefox, too) can right click the link and choose "inspect". It'll show the URL in the inspection page.

But people shouldn't have to do that. And if you label something as one thing but it takes me somewhere totally different, I'd probably RA the poster. That's a messed up thing to do with all the malware out on the web.

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There are some dumb, barely literate people on this website, so you have stuff like

Subject: Well well well look whose at it again LOL

I told yall this was happening but screw me right!

LINK

And the end result is that everyone has to guess whatever some moron is talking about. And the OP being a moron makes one more wary of clicking a blind link

Lack of effort. Laziness.