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		allenbrunson on Jan 12, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: HN Idea: Show links in questions after N upvotes strangely enough, some hn profiles do have clickable links in them. case in point: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mattmaroon i've tried to figure out whatever the trick is, but i can't.

kirubakaran on Jan 12, 2009 [–]

I even wrote to pg couple months ago about the "discrimination" :-)

His reply:

"They just haven't edited their profiles since I turned off live links after spammers discovered using them as landing pages for spam campaigns."

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