For me personally, I have been trimming links I have in various public places because a link is a sort of endorsement, and these days there is always someone wh

For me personally, I have been trimming links I have in various public places because a link is a sort of endorsement, and these days there is always someone who gets mad at you for endorsing the wrong thing. Even if a personal website is mostly alright, someone is going to dig up a random quote out of context, and the rest of the internet will judge your links based on that one bit. Linking to a specific article on a single topic seems relatively safe, but linking to toplevel websites or blogs seems more risky.