# When linking to an article, suggest the OP tell us what they think is worth noting about it **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 3, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-linking-to-an-article-suggest-the-op-tell-us-what-they-think-is-worth-noting-about-it/941300 "2021-05-03T16:16:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 76
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-linking-to-an-article-suggest-the-op-tell-us-what-they-think-is-worth-noting-about-it/941300/76 "2021-05-05T09:35:37Z")
> [@Ruken](#): > > This is why I try to use DOIs for academic papers. Do you know what’s almost worse than posts that consist only of a link? It’s when a poster uses a word or initialism that the average person can’t be expected to know. Like “DOI”. You might as well come in here and throw out foreign words (but of course _that_ has a rule clearly disallowing it. We need that for acronyms and initialisms too, don’t you think?) Why in the world would you just drop “DOI” in here? Why can’t you type out what that means? Never force your reader to look up random shit just because you’re typing on a cell phone and are too lazy to write what you mean. > [@Atamasama](#): > > One of the unfortunate consequences of Discourse is that while it is very helpful in creating a preview, people are using it too much as a crutch. As I remarked in the thread that birthed this one: > [@Kansas lawmaker goes full-on wacko](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kansas-lawmaker-goes-full-on-wacko/941141/70): > > I’m surprised that smart people can get taken in so easily by the infoboxes; believing that they represent some succinct capsule of their post as if there is a little man somewhere who reads their post and distills it for them. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-linking-to-an-article-suggest-the-op-tell-us-what-they-think-is-worth-noting-about-it/941300)._