Recently I have noticed a number of posts that are just links to content hosted on external sites.

In order to build publish0x into a platform of quality content, we must ensure content is self contained. While links are useful in articles, a link only article is devoid of any meaningful content to the reader.

What happens when the external link is changed,  or deleted? Often times,  the author will not bother to follow up and update the publish0x articles, making the article useless.

Sadly, some of these posts attract good tips. How many of these are purely for readers own tips we will never know. I suspect the majority of tippers don't even click the external link.

I have tried to alert authors about such posts but I am mostly met with indifference or abuse. I am not here to make enemies, so at some point I stop policing the articles.

I suggest that publish0x adds a way of alerting link only posts, and if their criteria to remove an article is satisfied,  then the article must be removed and all tips returned to the pool.