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by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37)

Stack Overflow link-only answer policy

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The link will break, and the answer will lose. Or the person who summarizes inline will get more upvotes because people are lazy to click the link. Also, web archiving exists.
This is especially idiotic when it is a link to another post in Stack Overflow itself.

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