It looks like the popular links are populated once a user clicks on a link for the first time. Can I moderate this? I would like to remove certain links but keep others. I couldn’t seem to find anything from searching.
AI-generated summary
In a support thread titled How can I remove some Popular Links from the Topics Details area?, TC88 asks if it’s possible to moderate or remove specific popular links after they appear following user clicks. Benjamin_D responds that no built-in feature exists and suggests potential solutions like domain-based filtering. maiki then demonstrates a workaround: by adding, clicking, and then editing a post to remove the link, the popular link disappears from the topic’s details area. maiki also recommends wrapping URLs in backticks (`) to display them as plain text without triggering the popular links system — for example, `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour` renders as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour and avoids being tracked. TC88 thanks the community for the helpful solution. The thread confirms that popular links are generated based on user interaction and can be removed by editing or formatting the source text accordingly.
Hi! and welcome,
I’m not aware of such a feature.
Do you imagine something per topic? Or maybe a parameter like allowed link domains that would be excluded domains from popular links (applied to every topic)?
Hiya @TC88!
Let’s try adding an external link and then removing it. It will take me a couple of replies, bear with me. 
Did you know we grade flour by burning it and seeing what’s left?! Read up on it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour. 
Now I’m going to post this and click that link!
First, I added a link and clicked on it, and then it showed up as a popular link on this topic:
Then I edited the reply and removed the link, and it removed it from the topic listing:
And so the solution to remove popular links is to literally remove the links from the discussion.
If I wanted to remove certain links while retaining the info, I’d add backticks (`) on either side.
I read `https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour`!
Becomes:
I read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flour!
And removes the link from the popular links list.
Hope that helps!
Amazing. Thanks for the help!