Understandable, although it is difficult and time-consuming to moderate such links, and nearly impossible if they are allowed outright. In this case, there was already significant discussion before it was identified (as well as other factors), so I made a judgement call to permit the rule violation. This is a user who should know better.

You may be interested in using the tesseract lemmy client, which provides a smart linkbox on every post which includes archive links, etc.

Excuse me, I have a face. It is clearly a lemming astronaut holding up a peace sign. * huffs off stomping in my space boots *

Mod:

Please link directly to articles, and provide archive links in the body or comments. I’m not locking or removing this at this time, but please take note in the future.

bAck tHE BLue