Genghis, just an observation, in case it helps:

I noticed you recently did something so that the news posts by a user show up on the user's account (before that, they didn't show up like that,  like regular posts do.)

After you did that, this also happened: when anyone goes to the indivdidual page of each post, the link in the title goes to the post on Dag Blog, and no longer goes to the article off-site.

To be clear, before that: when one went to the individual page, those dead urls were there, but the title was still a direct link to the article off-site. Whatever you did made it so the title link went  dead (well, not really dead, but to the dag blog page,) when looking at the page.

The reason it's frustrating the new way is that if there's a discussion and someone wants to refer to the article to quote it or whatever, or someone coming to the post from seeing a comment on "latest comments" the actual article, it's hard to get to. In the latter case, it means they might be tempted to join the discussion without reading the article. Or if someone wants to link to that news article when making a comment on a regular post (i.e., on a Wikileaks discussion post, they want to say "but look at this news piece Seaton just posted.") they have to go through several steps to give the person a live link.

I don't know if it's so important to have these posts listed under the poster's account, I can't think of a good reason they need to be, but I havent' thought about it much--maybe because then it shows up on tracking too? I did notice that the comments were showing up on "latest comments" before you made the change, so I know they were being tracked that way.