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by alexanderpease 4623 days ago
our thought process was that if you can't write something interesting about the link, even just a sentence, it's probably not worth posting

it also has the benefit of engendering more of a discussion. i'm more likely to comment on a post if the OP has already commented on it him/herself

but yes this is something we talked about internally

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In my case, I just copy/pasted a sentence from the article itself, and that seems to be the case for many of the current submissiosn to USV.com.