[gn]

I didn't mean to be insulting, it's just that I don't see how this particular instance of blurb-cum-comment page adds a lot of value. I'd have thought it would have been more helpful and polite to skip the intro and link to the full article straight away... but then again I'm new here, which is why I asked.

Does HN encourage this kind of redirection so that the blurb linked to may serve as an executive summary or tl;dr or whatever you want to call it? Does HN encourage this kind of redirection to elicit submissions from people with blogs to draw attention to?

[ugh]

In general the original source should be linked. Certainly in this case.

No reason, though, to call the author of the submitted article a “symbiont”. You could do that if the author of the submitted article is also the submitter (not the case here), but simply submitting the original article would probably be more appropriate.

[gn]

I see. Thanks for answering.