Overlinking

Last substantive revision: 2015-08-04

• linking leads to people feeling the urge to link – like a scholar feeling an urge to cite as many things as they can so they seem more knowledgeable; also some form of the sunk cost fallacy, where they don’t want to not use something they’ve found. (see colewb)
• “once you have an acronym, everything looks like a compliment or an insult”
• linking to catchy titles/phrases changes their meaning (there once was comment on LW about this)

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