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I believe it is done to keep people from promoting links in the Ask HN. From the Guidelines: "Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add comment
by polyfractal 15y ago
I believe it is done to keep people from promoting links in the Ask HN. From the Guidelines:
"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead. "
- johnx123-up 15y agoIf normal comments can have linkified texts, why not the Ask HN? I strongly believe that linkification will really help everyone.
- dholowiski 15y agoYou can only submit a link once to HN. Ask HN is not for promotion and having linkified text will promote abuse. If your post is worthy of having a link, someone else will post a linked comment for you. It's like the wikipedia rule of not editing your own article - it works just fine.