Should I edit my post to quote the referenced content?
It’s a particular style/format[1], using it isn’t required. There’s a couple styles around this that I’ve noticed:
1) A post which consists of a link, and maybe material on what it is. This is done by describing it, with an intended audience of people who haven’t read it. (The low-effort way of doing this is to copy the first few paragraphs.)
2) Writing a post with a (single) pre-requisite, which is linked to.
What makes the two different is that 1 is meant to be read after the linked post, while 2 is for reading before it [2].
I brought it up because I read your post, and then the linked post, and then I read your post again. 1 and 2 can be combined, but it wasn’t clear whether your post came before the link or after, and it wasn’t clearly split into two parts along those lines.
[1] I am not familiar with its origin.
[2] Except when 2 is a quote, and skipping to the link doesn’t miss anything. The discussion/comments on a post of either type may be indistinguishable, including discussions which require having read the linked post to understand. Sometimes a post which originally just consists of a link might get comments like “what’s the linked post about”.
It’s a particular style/format[1], using it isn’t required. There’s a couple styles around this that I’ve noticed:
1) A post which consists of a link, and maybe material on what it is. This is done by describing it, with an intended audience of people who haven’t read it. (The low-effort way of doing this is to copy the first few paragraphs.)
2) Writing a post with a (single) pre-requisite, which is linked to.
What makes the two different is that 1 is meant to be read after the linked post, while 2 is for reading before it [2].
I brought it up because I read your post, and then the linked post, and then I read your post again. 1 and 2 can be combined, but it wasn’t clear whether your post came before the link or after, and it wasn’t clearly split into two parts along those lines.
[1] I am not familiar with its origin.
[2] Except when 2 is a quote, and skipping to the link doesn’t miss anything. The discussion/comments on a post of either type may be indistinguishable, including discussions which require having read the linked post to understand. Sometimes a post which originally just consists of a link might get comments like “what’s the linked post about”.
Thanks!