1st CD Democratic Field Gets Less Hughes

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Please label your links to the New York Times. Blind links are lazy and inconsiderate. Thanks.

No Offense on January 17, 2012 at 9:21 AM

way to give your ignorance top billing, asswipe

on January 17, 2012 at 9:21 AM

@1: Huh? There are no links to the NY Times. Only to the FEC.

That said, I find "blind links" as you call them, perfectly acceptable in blog posts. I see no purpose in cluttering up my prose with formalities that add no additional information (you can view the link by holding your cursor over it, or by clicking through). In fact, so-called blind links have a higher click through rate, so you could say it does the source a service.

Goldy on January 17, 2012 at 9:39 AM

Goldy, while I don't know the actual number, I'm guessing a pretty respectable number of people read Slog on their smartphone at this point. Holding your cursor over the link isn't an option.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on January 17, 2012 at 9:47 AM

Suzan, not Suzanne.

But hey, at least you got your it'ses right in this one.

N in Seattle on January 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM

@4: That occurred to me. But you find the source when you click through. It's as more attribution than you get with an endnote, as it takes you directly to the source.

@5: I'd betcha I've gotten "Suzan" right I higher percentage of the time than I got "its".

Goldy on January 17, 2012 at 10:29 AM