> For some weird reason, outlinks are to be avoided Because people don't understand metrics other than "optimize this". So they take social media metrics and a

> For some weird reason, outlinks are to be avoided Because people don't understand metrics other than "optimize this". So they take social media metrics and apply them where they don't belong. To me fair, news is probably pretty hard to measure. Since the real value is in quality. People want information, quickly available, but accurate and easily readable. I mean isn't a big function of the news to explain complex topics more simply? I don't think there are any half way decent metrics for quality in really any domain.