From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

[Avrina]

On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 02:52:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 17:58:50 UTC, Avrina wrote:
>
>>
>> They are actually going against their rules and are actively 
>> trying to game their algorithm by telling D's community to 
>> search for the article instead of providing.
>>
>> So actually, I'd they also wanted to follow tand respect the 
>> rules of another community, then they would be providing a 
>> direct link. What they are doing now is going against their 
>> rules by trying to bypass their algorithm for more fake 
>> internet points.
>
> I don't know why you're so worked up about this, but please 
> scroll up and read what I wrote. Nowhere have I asked for 
> anyone to upvote the post. I want people to know it's there so 
> that those who would like to do so can head over and comment. 
> Whether you upvote or not is up to you, but if you do so I 
> would like it to count. I also don't want direct links harming 
> our ranking. That gets more eyes on the post and helps us all 
> in the long run.
>
> If that's not good enough for you, then I have nothing else to 
> say on the matter.

Replies like this one and andrei are why.

You are directing a community around a topic to an article about 
that topic. What do you think they are going to do? There's a 
reason why votes don't count when an article is linked directly. 
They didn't do it by mistake.

No worries, I'll post the direct link for you in the future. I 
got you covered.