Links

[tpbury]

I almost never follow a link to a newspaper article or blog if the person who posts it just says "interesting article on XYZ" or "be careful out there in cyberland" or whatever. It's too much effort. Can you not tell us why the article aroused you sufficiently to bother posting the link? Add some of your insight FFS!

[St Landrew]

Ah yes, but then you get accused of writing more than one line, and that's too taxing a read for a lot of jokester posters. Even though they find themselves in the Lounge.

[Saint in Paradise]

Also the forum might have legal problems if you just cut and paste articles as it breaches copyright issues.

 

From the forum rules which state:-

 

 

# DO NOT copy and paste entire articles from other websites on the forum. It is almost certainly a breach of copyright,

and we get a lot of hassle from people at the Echo and the like because of it.

Edited 30 August, 2009 by Saint in Paradise
Added the forum rule

[BadgerBadger]

I almost never follow a link to a newspaper article or blog if the person who posts it just says "interesting article on XYZ" or "be careful out there in cyberland" or whatever. It's too much effort. Can you not tell us why the article aroused you sufficiently to bother posting the link? Add some of your insight FFS!

 

It's a HUGE effort required is to click the link and take a look , sometimes I have to lay down after clickying a linkying thingy

 

[tpbury]

It's a HUGE effort required is to click the link and take a look , sometimes I have to lay down after clickying a linkying thingy

 

 

Well I treat them a bit like junk mail, just a few words extra from the OP could make me more willing to follow the link. There's people who do this (some daily mail references going on on another thread), and I've followed the link.

 

With YouTube clips, I don't mind coz I like watching funnies.

[sotonjoe]

It's a HUGE effort required is to click the link and take a look , sometimes I have to lay down after clickying a linkying thingy

 

 

 

Maybe tpbury is a job dodger whose idea of 'effort' involves lighting the 20th fag of the day and picking up the phone to order a kebab?

[tpbury]

Maybe tpbury is a job dodger whose idea of 'effort' involves lighting the 20th fag of the day and picking up the phone to order a kebab?

 

Hey it's the 30th and Pizza all the way!