Archive links are considered better practice due to their functionality as an archive (duh). I find the captchas annoying as well, but I have no sympathy for morons like the one you’re replying to that won’t take 30 seconds to go through captchas in exchange for the obvious advantages offered by creating a backup of information.
God I fucking hate archive links. I'm not solving six captchas to read whatever this slop is. Just post direct fucking links and stop being a weenie.
Every time I post a direct link here there's some weenie in the comments bitching about posting an archive instead.
Archive links are considered better practice due to their functionality as an archive (duh). I find the captchas annoying as well, but I have no sympathy for morons like the one you’re replying to that won’t take 30 seconds to go through captchas in exchange for the obvious advantages offered by creating a backup of information.