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I have a feeling that some places give more weight to outgoing links from highly reputable sites like HN. Thus downvoting them into dead is not enough.

• b112 2y ago
  Except you can't see dead posts unless logged in, and also have the option on. So no SEO for those links.
  • cutemonster 2y ago
    Interestingly, they apparently are counted when showing total number of discussion comments: > 20 comments But there's only 20 if counting the dead spam comments too. So an idea: One can use them, to make one's own submissions look more interesting (more people discussing).
    • Loughla 2y ago
      Does that impact page ranking on HN? And what purpose would that serve for OP or the study about rat social structures? That being said, the poster of this study does submit quite a bit. So maybe there's something to that.
      • cutemonster 2y ago
        Oh, it's just that I went to this discussion because there were (seemed to be) many comments, so I thought it was something interesting. Social proof. And I suppose others a bit look at the comment count too. But this time, turns out it's all just comments about comments :-)