Backlinks make certain posts more popular than they should be!

[Moin]

@gassim

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 referenced the top topic…

You could add ?silent=true to the link. For example https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/269247?silent=true does not add a link below that post (and it does not notify the author of that post)