Pet Peeve: Fake Cut-Tags

Okay, I can't take it anymore. I give my apologies in advance. And yes, this is unfair and bitchy and y'all don't actually need to read it, but if I don't vent about it, I will kill someone. Painfully.

1. This is a link.

2. ( This is a cut tag. )

3. ( This is actually still a link. It's just a link that happens to be enclosed in parenthesis and bolded. It is not a fake cut-tag. )

4. This is really not a fake link. It is, in fact, a real link. In what way is this fake? I mean, really, the hell?

Notice how when you click it, you magically go to another webpage? That would be what makes it a link.

And now that I no longer feel as though I need to maim someone, I will go answer my comments.

Thank you and good night.

ETA:
A metaphorical retelling of why this boggles me:

There is a lion. Someone has shaved off his mane and painted him with stripes.

Now, this person comes to me, after going to all that work of making the lion look different, and says, "Look! It's a fake tiger!"

And then I would boggle. Because, yes. But also, why?