Rep measures popularity. Trackbacks measure relevance. I'm not going to link to an existing node because I really like it; I'm going to link to it because it relates to the node I'm creating now. | [reply] |
The idea of counting references to articles is fairly widespread in the scientific and engineering communities; a big chunk of "reputation" is how many other workers reference your articles. See, for example, Generalized h-index for Disclosing Latent Facts in Citation Networks.
Frequency of citation is similar to, but not identical with, popularity. As an example, I would guess that no matter how many upvotes a responses in a poll, regardless of how many upvotes they get, are probably not the targets of many links.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
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