This could end up more of a feature request, but here’s the explanation. For instance, in the most popular topic on Discourse Welcome to meta.discourse.org , you can see there are ‘backlinks’ (if this is the accurate word) that became very popular, [image] However, most of these topics might not n…

[image] Al-Gassim Sharaf Addin: If I want to remove a topic from that list, I have to go and edit that manually by removing the reference, but what if I don’t want to edit the other topic (since it might actually be important to mention it there) yet I don’t need it to be ‘so popular’ because it…

You know, that’s a very helpful suggestion! I had to use ``` to keep the links in the new topics but not get them to be referenced in the top topic, so I’ll actually go back and update that. Thanks! So for the ‘sorting’ the list and pinning certain ones to the top, it’s probably a feature request, …

[image] Al-Gassim Sharaf Addin: So for the ‘sorting’ the list and pinning certain ones to the top, it’s probably a feature request, right? Yep. The links shown are just links, and are sorted by popularity, not by any other way (yet).

[image] Moin: You could add ?silent=true to the link. For example Discourse Database with Dummy Data does not add a link below that post (and it does not notify the author of that post) Very nice. Was not aware of this. Should probably work in a link resource if some sort. I have used swapp…

[image] Dan DeMontmorency: Very nice. Was not aware of this. Yeah, looks like a new feature Disable notifications for watched words link - #6 by Don :slight_smile:

Funny, for the case of the welcome topic here I have been working through the incoming links to remove them. It’s not just that the welcome topic is more popular than it should be but those links are going to be very confusing and technical sounding to new members here just as they are finding their…

Backlinks make certain posts more popular than they should be!

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) October 17, 2024, 11:16pm 4

Yep. The links shown are just links, and are sorted by popularity, not by any other way (yet).

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Backlinks make certain posts more popular than they should be!

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