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I hope this is okay, in terms of the rule about posting just links to commercial website

To clarify a few things-

The main purpose of the rule is to prevent thread-starters from just posting a link to their site and having that be their contribution to the discussion. This would invite spammy behavior, which we want to discourage.

We don’t like links to commercial sites, but that’s primarily sites that are selling things. We are also wary of people repeatedly linking to a particular site, i.e. they are driving traffic there. (i.e. don’t post just to link to Bob’s news aggregator or blog)

It’s OK to post links to sites that have info helpful to a discussion. If there is a particularly relevant passage, we encourage you to quote it as well. If you are rebutting a claim, then this is necessary to focus the conversation; it’s not reasonable to force people to sift through a link to get the important information. 

In this case, the thread was in science news. Posting news links there is not only allowed, it’s expected.

 

 

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