Next time, please submit a link directly to the TED talk.<p><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/defend_our_freedom_to_share_or_why_sopa_is_a_bad_idea.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/defend_our_freedom_to_share...</a><p>The short blurb in that blog post violates the same principle that governs why you can't both submit a link and comment on it at the same time. Basically, the reason HN doesn't permit text and a link is so the submitter doesn't get to have his commentary privileged at the top, instead of being subjected to up voting and down voting by the community.<p>From the HN Guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."<p>If that is your blog post, submit your link like so:
<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3490994" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3490994</a><p>... and then add your comment to the thread.