"Posts with just a link" Topic

1. Love 'em! – short and sweet, they get to the point.
2. Hate 'em! – if you can't be bothered to type some text or give me a preview image, don't waste my time.
3. Take ''em or leave 'em – it's just another click or two to figure out what you're talking about.

I ignore them.

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Inevitable, wasn't it?

TMP link

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I also dislike posts that don't include the scale/figure size in the heading (where that is relevant to the content). If it is about 28mm figures, then say that in the heading.

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And it seems there have been quite a few lately.
Grelber

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The TMP FAQ says images just need the URL. It doesn't always work.

When walking down the street a perfect stranger sticks a table spoon in your face and says, "Here, taste this!" Do you just open your mouth, and let them shove the spoon in your pie hole?

Pretty much the same thing isn't it!

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3, good lord people. Like your too busy to be bothered.

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I just can't be bothered to click on them.

It's the equivalent of being handed a book with utterly nothing on the cover. Sure, if I had little choice, I might read it (if I were on a desert island or in a prison cell).

But, if I'm – in an internet sense – in the equivalent of a huge library with almost infinite choice, imagery or, a worst, some sort of intriguing text will always draw my attention first.

Books have summaries, enticing covers and even (gosh) pictures… (some of which I don't have to colour in myself!).

I know accepted wisdom says that one shouldn't judge a book by its cover. Empiricism suggests that this is not how the world of publishing works.

Why – other than massive laziness* – should the web buck that trend?

John T

* other than the occasional use of an unexplained simple link for humorous or ironic effect

The TMP FAQ says images just need the URL. It doesn't always work.

It will only work if the URL ends with ".jpg"

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Not a fan for the OP. Not against them, but giving little incentive to click means not a lot of clicks …

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2 but then this is a pet peeve of mine

I never go look.

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2 – I assume it is spam or a dodgy website.

4 Depends on the heading. Some posts don't need any further comment.

And depends on the poster. Somebody like Ochoin as above, I doubt spam or malware. Somebody who joined two days ago--eh,maybe not.

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AussieAndy for the win.

Please always include a little bit about the link in the text box so we know where we are going and what we are going to see. I usually don't click on them.

Please tell us the scale of everything in the heading.

New Japanese WWII troops! I will click on it and then be irritated when it is not in "my" scale.

New Japanese WWII troops in 28mm! Is much more useful, even though I won't click on it, because I don't do 28mm.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

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If it gets right to the point, 1.

Ban them and send the posters to the doghouse to learn how to behave.