Web site visibility
I digress a little from the focus of this thread, but for those who are not aware, this thread probably generated an amount of visibilty for their website, that could not even be bought.
The way this works is that google (or any other search engine robot) is forever refreshing links to pprune pages- because they are so popular. It inherently thinks that any links, specialy active ones, published on their pages would be important too, and starts ranking those pages above others.
So if you do not particularly wish any good for the links you are publishing, please do not post them directly. Other indirect (probably crude) methods such as (www dot otherwebsite dot com) would probably work as well