Its simple, when I look at the list of diaries, I can hover my cursor over the title and a little window opens, and viola, I can read the first sentences of your diary. Except when a link is coded in, then all I can read is your link. Then I think this person has just published their first diary ever at D-Kos, so they have no clue.
I tend to fly by if my teaser window yields nada. And that what happens if you put a link in the first 3 sentences, I end up ignoring your diary.
Ok, maybe not, you're in my stream, you're in one of groups, so I open the diary and read it any way (I might still feel like you're a jerk and need to develop some actual writing skillz).
Tease me, give one or two good sentences that makes me want to read what you wrote. YOu really need to do better. DO you think you're up to it?
At Ease, smoke 'em if ya got 'em.