For a background of the problem, see [this other question][1].

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Feature Proposal
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This feature proposal is reduce posting of "linking hit-and-runs" answers.

An answer is a "linking hit-and-run" if links occupy >= 15% of the body and the character count if lower or equal to 200.

If an answer is qualified as a "linking hit-and-run", one of the following actions could be implemented:

 - **Warning Only:** Warn the user that his answer is a "linking hit-and-run" and considered bad etiquette on this website to post that kind of answer and that posting such answer might incur negative reputation for that very reason.

  

 - **Warning and CW:** Warn the user that his answer is a "linking hit-and-run" and that it will be marked as *community wiki* unless he adds more body content. If the user decides to post the answer anyway, the answer is marked *community wiki* and no reputation is gained.

 

 - **Deny:** Outright deny posting the answer.

This should reduce the number of users posting small and cryptic answers linking to an other site.

I think a change is required as this has become a community problem and this trend cannot be reversed on a case-by-case down-voting of those types of answers. New users have no idea that this is frowned upon which is why this problem needs to be solved systematically.


  [1]: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/38001/statistics-current-ratio-of-link-and-run-on-the-so-trilogy