Comment by dbrereton
3 years ago
I totally agree with you on this. Being able to follow the links easily in either direction would make it easier to fall into interesting rabbit holes.
> Edit: hmmm... though looking further, maybe this goes against your MarketRank philosophy.
It doesn't at all, but curious as to why you'd think that. We're not talking about using backlinks to rank pages after all, just as a discovery tool, which I think is great.
Ah, glad to hear it's not in conflict after all! Thanks for clarifying.
As to the source of my confusion... I think I was skimming and about to turn back to work and not thinking too deeply.
At the time I wrote that edit I had just gotten as far as "pagerank values links whereas marketrank values upvotes" (heavily paraphrased interpretation of 2.1 here: https://dkb.io/post/market-rank). My reaction was "oh, maybe that means links are bad... that's an interesting perspective but I don't have time to digest it right this moment. I'll put a pin in it and return to this article later to better understand, and hey I should add an edit to my comment to signal reading comprehension."
That last thought seems pretty ironic in retrospect.