If you see a post looks lengthy and have good information but at end of it, poster leaves a source to a newsletter article, will you send merit to a poster?
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I'm not a fan of copy pasted articles even they do have mentioned the source.
Atleast the user that created the topic should made the article much easier to understand.
Sumarize it or he/she outlined the important parts of the article.
Lenghty posts, for me, are boring to read unless I'm interested to the topic and it's body really delivered smoothly and has been tackled very well.