Tips and Deals' Thread Pollution

[SDGuy]

Uncle Wig wrote:
...But while we're at it, I'll post my pet peeve: many, MANY threads with an uninformative headline and nothing but a link. How about a sentence or even a sentence fragment giving a hint at what you want us to click on and why?

:agree:
And while we're at it - what's with the URL shorteners??
Just post the D*mn link and quit trying to hide the website you want us to click thru to.