The discussion revolves around whether internal links that get oneboxed should be click-tracked. fdsa discovered that internal links with a space in front of them are tracked, while others are not. They found a previous discussion https://meta.discourse.org/t/click-counter-missing-for-some-internal-links/98673?u=fdsa but noted that oneboxed links were not addressed. A quote from sam suggests that internal links may not need counters. However, fdsa argues that tracking clicks on oneboxed internal links would incentivize posting links in this format, as they have personally posted links in a non-oneboxed format to track clicks.
Personally, I believe that internal links that get oneboxed should be click-tracked because it incentives posting links as oneboxes. I have knowingly posted links multiple times in a non-oneboxed format just so that I could see how many times people clicked on my links.