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You should link to the actual source and include the archive link as the post text or as a top-level comment. The domain displayed next to the link will otherwi
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 6mo ago
You should link to the actual source and include the archive link as the post text or as a top-level comment. The domain displayed next to the link will otherwise be the archive domain, which does not inform readers about the source.
Also, @mentions are not implemented on HN; email hn@ycombinator.com to get mod attention. (And you can confirm with them what I wrote about archive links.)
- gnabgib 6mo agoThe link goes to a dead post (because archive - but there's nothing to merge), you're posting to an account that has posted/failed with archive links before and used @ before.. not sure what you're hoping for here.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 6mo agoI am hoping to inform them? It does not appear their comments with attempted @mentions have informative replies, and posting a link to an archive domain will mean it's dead-on-arrival. Unless someone vouches and then comments on one of those posts, there isn't really an opportunity for a commenter to tell them. I suppose part of your point is that they should be able to see that the post is dead; that regardless does not tell them why the post is dead. I'm also not totally convinced they can see that the post is dead. When an account is shadow-banned on this forum they can still log in and post but their posts will all be dead to everyone except them; naively, it is plausible to me that they actually cannot see that the posts are dead because they were DOA. In other words, even though the account is not shadow-banned, the domain might be. Anyway, hope that helps.