Any claim without a URI should be treated as suspicious
I hate URL fights.<p>I give little extra value to people providing links with their clams.<p>I largely given up providing links to information when called out as well.  It&#x27;s not worth the time.<p>Discussion on the internet is broken in most places (HN is less broken than most).  I find little value providing URLs.  Much of the time I provide them, few folks seem to read it, fewer actually want to read it in an intellectually honest way and usually they respond with some bonkers links of their own that don&#x27;t say what they think they&#x27;re saying.<p>Much (not all) of the time I&#x27;ve given up providing links to basic information it doesn&#x27;t change the conversation in any meaningful way.   It&#x27;s usually just an argument where folks who feel like URLs are some sort of scoring device.<p>I get the idea put forward here, but I don&#x27;t know if it makes sense in an age where you can find an URL that says anything and discussion on the internet is so bad that nobody is really reading them anyway.