Comment by bookofjoe

It’s not unreasonable to expect, but also in this case the meaning of the acronym doesn’t really matter as much as the meaning of the score. The link does to a page that lets you do the quiz and see your score, so it’s worth clicking.

Yes. It’s called hypermedia.

Yes, especially if you're going to post. The expectation is that if you're posting you've read the article.

Yes

No, but if they fail to explain it yes.

Yes, reading an article to understand the headline has always been a critical part of news ingestion.

OK. My comment-question has been downvoted and I've been told by a number of HN readers that YES — I SHOULD "have to click on a link to find out what an acronym cited in a post means."

From now on when I comment using medical acronyms like AKA and AMA I will not spell out what they stand for (as I've always done up to now as a courtesy to readers so they don't have to sidetrack themselves looking it up) but rather will provide a link.

https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/professional-issues/doc...

I dunno man, but your reply with a link and no definitions didn't address that.