"Other people do it," by itself, is not a great justification. It's yet another way to mislead. Just because other misleading schemes exist doesn't mean this i

"Other people do it," by itself, is not a great justification. It's yet another way to mislead. Just because other misleading schemes exist doesn't mean this isn't also misleading and potentially bad. As for "How so" ... I didn't think it through. I'll go with "potentially not good," but equally not thought through. Since the subject of the article is URLs as UI, when you send someone a URL to "look at this", what they see is the URL, and in my example the human readable part is "the site" and "a3n", but what they get is nothing to do with a3n. I can only intuitively start with "that's misleading," and imagine (but not point out) the possibility of "something bad". Maybe something merely annoying like rick-rolling.