# When linking to an article, suggest the OP tell us what they think is worth noting about it

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> [@erysichthon](#):
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> > [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#):
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> > 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.
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> DOI = [Digital Object Identifier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier). It’s a standardized system of persistent identifiers for online content, mainly used for things like academic journal articles, government reports, etc. If you see a DOI in a citation, you can click on it and go to the thing being cited.

Thanks, but you see–it’s not about what DOI actually means. I don’t care. The point was that it’s poor form to post things like foreign words or rarely-known acronyms, initialisms, etc. It’s lazy and it’s lame.

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