# Backlinks make certain posts more popular than they should be!

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/backlinks-make-certain-posts-more-popular-than-they-should-be/331362
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 17, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backlinks-make-certain-posts-more-popular-than-they-should-be/331362 "2024-10-17T13:58:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2024, 2:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backlinks-make-certain-posts-more-popular-than-they-should-be/331362/2 "2024-10-17T14:04:40Z")

</div>

> [@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](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)

---

_[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backlinks-make-certain-posts-more-popular-than-they-should-be/331362)._