Well, it may be indelicate of me to say it, but I think the "make a link / blickifier" is a tool for morons, and it encourages them to remain morons. Maybe not, though - it forces them to learn how to copy-paste, and they are forced to look at the HTML for a link while they paste it into their text.
Still, it's a lot more efficient to learn how to do a link.
I guess my big complaint is when people post links to good music information (especially when it's folk lyrics), and then I find the link dead a year later. It's nice when our speed-demons come up with an answer to a lyrics request in 43 seconds, but something is lacking if their response is just a link to another site. I suppose some people have "ethical considerations" and think we shouldn't copy another's work - but all of folk music is basically a violation of this sort of ethical viewpoint. We're atrying to assemble a permanent body of knowledge here. The Internet is a notoriously impermanent soruce of information, and I think it's important that we post and retain the information here.
This happens so often that I now have added a standard message to my cache of editing remarks:
Lyrics copy-pasted from the link cited above.
-Joe Offer-
A dead link is about the most worthless source of information I can imagine.
-Joe Offer, posting on http://207.103.108.101/-
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