Frontmatter Links Are Tag-Noise, Markdown Links Are Citation

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A page accumulated 2,535 inbound links — all from frontmatter tags, zero from genuine prose. The lesson: frontmatter-extracted links measure co-tagging, not endorsement. Weighting them at 0.2x and markdown-extracted links at 1.0x restored the signal. Any system that ingests tag-heavy sources should distinguish automatic metadata links from human-written citations.

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