I think it should be formatted slightly differently than a normal link post, since having “Link” in the title signals to users that they will have to leave the site to read the content.
Not that I necessarily disagree with this, but just want to note that there are already many posts on LW which are linkposts with text in them (in fact, I think this may actually be the majority of all linkposts; of the last 11 frontpage linkposts, for example, 6 contain text, while 5 are link-only posts); so what we take a “normal link post” to be—and consequently, what is the appropriate UI design for linkposts—should probably take that into account.
Yeah, I think the important distinction is “here is text that is commentary on the provided link” and “here is the text of the link”. I think these two are the most important to distinguish from one another.
Not that I necessarily disagree with this, but just want to note that there are already many posts on LW which are linkposts with text in them (in fact, I think this may actually be the majority of all linkposts; of the last 11 frontpage linkposts, for example, 6 contain text, while 5 are link-only posts); so what we take a “normal link post” to be—and consequently, what is the appropriate UI design for linkposts—should probably take that into account.
Yeah, I think the important distinction is “here is text that is commentary on the provided link” and “here is the text of the link”. I think these two are the most important to distinguish from one another.
Agreed. Note, though, that even with that caveat, linkposts seem to be at least one-third text-containing.