Which style of Latin plurals should I use? vs. Which style of Latin plurals should I use? – Spot the difference!
The second one has a shortened url; I find this downright rude.
What are your views on the usage of masked shortened-urls?
Is it wrong to edit such content and replace the shortened url with the original one?
1 Answer
Using url shorteners should be reserved for contexts where you MUST use an url shortener:
the URL is very strange and contains semi-illegal chars that are hard to link here
you are using a limited input area where the URL is so long, it would prevent you from entering other meaningful text
the markup does not allow presenting a
<a href="">friendly link title</a>
None of that applies here, so I would say they should be discouraged unless absolutely necessary.