Strange links being added to postings

[koaftder]

I don't mind the link throughs in the least. It's obvious what they are just from the context of what's written in a post and the fact that they're little one or two word deals with a line underneath them. :roll eyes:

[koaftder]

Some of us use the links for real purposes, but when people are taught that they're mostly spam, you lose content from your postings in practise. I'll become unlikely that your informative links will be noticed anymore. Real Mac mini links won't be clicked because of spam Mac mini links etc.

Nah. You have to go out of your way to make links look like the advertisement drops. For example: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/13/11/07/1555247/ask-slashdot-tools-for-managing-multiple-serial-console-servers <- that's an example of how normal people dump links into posts, it requires zero effort. Why on Earth would I go out of my way to mess with BB tags to make a link look like the auto generated ad referrals?