@eisai @FreedoingVlad @11112011 @Senator_Armstrong @animeirl @dicey @icedquinn @p people don't use links here because getting someone to search up and post a whole bunch of links and then replying to that effort laden post with a short dismissal, usually by criticizing the sources rather than discussing the topic at hand, is a form of trolling.

Also, a lot of the topics we discuss here are subject to memory-holing or google-spamming. You'll read an article, then two days later, it's either completely gone from the internet, or it's buried under three pages of Google links about an unrelated topic. For instance, you'll google for an Alex Jones quote, and underneath your search, it will say "Did you mean the Jonas Brothers?" followed by four pages of robo-pasted articles about the latest Jonas Bros. divorce news. Or today, if you did the same search, it would be ten robo-pasted pages of the same two people griping about how awful it is that Elon Musk let Alex Jones back on X. This is not only limited to Google search either btw. Pretty much any search engine will give you the same results.

So anyway, it's perfectly all right to ask for a link, or have someone ask you for a link for more information, provided you and they are willing to continue discussing the subject at hand. If you find yourself providing long links and getting short answers though, don't play into it.