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No hard feelings, and I wasn't having a go or anything. I just think your blog links added no direct value to this discussion. I think posting links like that

No hard feelings, and I wasn't having a go or anything. I just think your blog links added no direct value to this discussion. I think posting links like that here when they are just forwards to someone else's content looks a lot like self promotion. (And I'm not saying it was in intended that way in your case, just that it often looks like it). I think you have to be careful to balance self promotion so it doesn't come across too spammy. Especially in places like this where the audience is tech oriented enough to recognise what's going on. I'm just saying that I think the redirection links you posted looked a bit like spam. Don't get me wrong, posting links on your blog to things you find interesting is great, and I do exactly the same. And linking to your blog when it has original content relevant to a discussion is helpful, but when just referring to the source in a discussion I think it's better to quote the source directly rather than adding a layer of redirection. Also; what if your site went down, the link would be broken and the valuable content lost. By linking directly there is one less point of failure so the linking is more robust. Without trying to sound patronising or arrogant in any way; I hope you don't take this as message to stop providing comment or content on discussions here. Rather as a message on it's preferred form. I hope you do continue to contribute when you have good links. (I did up vote you for providing the links by the way)

swombat 16y ago
I see your point, and I think I have reacted a bit grumpily, but it was somewhat disheartening to, ten minutes after going and spending 5 minutes searching through my links and finding the appropriate one, check my threads and find that I've been downvoted to 0 (it was the case briefly) while you, who the links were directed to, replied with the direct link and got upvoted. That left a somewhat sour taste in my mouth. I'm not a big fan of blog-spamming either, and I can see how those particular links could be seen as such. Most of my links actually include some additional insight (and one of those did). It felt like a fair trade-off that I'll go and find almost ten high-quality answers to your question and in exchange get to at least post them with the link from the resource on which I collected and found them... Bah. I'll keep on sharing my links, but next time I'll tend towards just sharing the links which have additional insight, so I am less likely to be accused of blog-spamming.

swombat 16y ago

I see your point, and I think I have reacted a bit grumpily, but it was somewhat disheartening to, ten minutes after going and spending 5 minutes searching through my links and finding the appropriate one, check my threads and find that I've been downvoted to 0 (it was the case briefly) while you, who the links were directed to, replied with the direct link and got upvoted. That left a somewhat sour taste in my mouth. I'm not a big fan of blog-spamming either, and I can see how those particular links could be seen as such. Most of my links actually include some additional insight (and one of those did). It felt like a fair trade-off that I'll go and find almost ten high-quality answers to your question and in exchange get to at least post them with the link from the resource on which I collected and found them... Bah. I'll keep on sharing my links, but next time I'll tend towards just sharing the links which have additional insight, so I am less likely to be accused of blog-spamming.