edited. the post form requests that you copy the whole thing, so I figured it was probably a good idea to do that; I have gone back and forth on when to copy whole posts and not done it before, so this being the first time, I guess I won’t do it again. whoops!
One point is that the convention is to link to other people’s content with some quotes and motivation for relevance to LW, not to copy it outright.
edited. the post form requests that you copy the whole thing, so I figured it was probably a good idea to do that; I have gone back and forth on when to copy whole posts and not done it before, so this being the first time, I guess I won’t do it again. whoops!