Quote Originally Posted by Shhalahr Windrider View Post
Each additional click violates the “don’t make the user work” principle of usability just a little more.

And in this case, it isn’t just one click. Once you have read the post it will take another click to close out the tab you opened it in. And that is not getting into the fact that it winds up adding to a possibly already tab-cluttered window in the first place.
Uh... but this is the index of the giant's commentary, it is ALREADY set up to merely refer to them and you ALREADY have to click on them to read his actual words...

And pretty much any case where you would ever be referring to them, you would need the direct link to the post anyway.