Hi there! We've noticed people submit links to recent data science articles, announcements, etc. We love this! It's such a good way to keep up to date with what is going on in the space.

With that in mind, we wanted to get your thoughts: should we enable link-only submissions? These would be posts that only contain a link to another site. We'll still support discussions here, but it'll be similar to how you can see posts on Reddit (links or discussions).

What do you think?

For what it's worth, the last few posts with links (financial summarization, brain-neural network correlations, etc.) have been really interesting. I don't have much to say about those topics but I do enjoy reading them and <3 on the site. I like the idea!!

My first thought is “why not....” but may be it’s because I haven’t thought this through.  Is there any concerns/downside to it?  

Having a link only post will probably lessen the engagement, but I dont think that’s necessarily a bad thing.  It just means that people are clicking the link and may be just dont come back to comment on it (which they dont need to).

I think the community here is close enough that we dont have to worry about spamming.

I'm 50/50 on this

I can see the benefit but I also think people posting in the comment body is A-OK

I think it's a great idea! Go for it!

Thanks everyone for the feedback!!