When editing this answer, I thought it would enhance readability/access when having
Since this question comes up so often, I thought I'd try to supplement ArTourter's correct answer with a more general comment.
instead of
Since this question comes up so often, I thought I'd try to supplement ArTourter's correct answer with a more general comment.
I already did that quite a several times - is it considered bad practice for some reason? I think, it also gives the author of the referenced answer more of the credit. This is because an interested reader can easily follow the link and doesn't has to search for the respective answer. This might not hold true in this specific case, but imagine a question accumulating 20 answers (actually the one referenced above could still be answered by more people).