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Non-shortened: [0] https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-to-plastic-measures-500cdf1fe528 https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/diabetes-time-to-resort-t

• pasbesoin 8y ago
  Thank you. I agree, and I seem to recall other comments to this effect, in the past. The guidelines don't specifically mention URL shorteners, but they do ask posters to supply original sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. Personally, and as a suggestion for this site, I would extend that to ask that sources not be hidden behind a URL shortener. I want to see where I'm going; I also don't appreciate my click being tracked. I go "meta" on HN only reluctantly. But, I've noticed the increasing volume of comments on HN, and it seems worthwhile mentioning that HN has some different expectations than other sites. Expectations that have helped to keep the commentary elevated and on point, up to now. (I'm just another poster, here. The only basis for my comment is appreciating the quality of discussion here, and hoping it continues. Thanks.) P.S. Not sure why the downvotes, but ok. As far as I recall, there are many past cases where the use of URL shorteners has been discouraged. Somewhat akin to the advice to stick [PDF] in the submission title for links to PDF files. People don't like surprises. Or, in my case, mystery links.