I think there are some people whose links absolutely suck. Just horrible. But then, like lucky, they are quite excellent. Also, there are people who just write a bunch of text in the embedded forums with no pictures and just pages upon pages of text. I find those absoultely boring.

So, in the end, it does not matter if it's embedded or a link; what matters is how good the TR is.

However, if the TR's were identical, I would prefer embeeded over the link.