" ... but surely there must be a line between encouraging people and telling them to go to other sites."
There's certainly some sort of misunderstanding going on, because now I have no idea what that is supposed to mean or refer to.
My original intended point:
I do not want to see more posts such as "Every BBC Essential Mix, 1993 to 2010". When they do appear, I prefer people not up-vote them; it just encourages more of the same.
I do, however, like certain posts that accumulate a multitude of links to a variety of music sources. And it was a post of that kind that was (incorrectly) presented as some sort of precedence for the current post.
In any event, these things will sort themselves out as people prefer.
