Kad said: "Eh, if a thread is built around a specific item like a news item, essay, article, video, tweet, or whatever, it makes sense to include it so everyone is on the same page and can easily reference it- it also verifies that the poster isn't pulling it from thin air and it comes from a reliable source.
That's different from posting something like, "what is Hamilton's performance schedule??"- a very easily found piece of general information."
Yeah, and it's not like I don't know how to find things. I KNOW HOW TO FIND THINGS, clearly. I just shouldn't have to go looking for them when the OP has/just had the URL in their browser as they were typing their post in a new thread.
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