Re:Slippery Slope? (Score 2, Interesting)

Reinforcing popularity . . . It works as sort of an amplifier, doesn't it? As such, it is prone to positive feedback (that high-pitched whine you hear from PA systems). People will click on links, just because other people clicked on them.

Does it add useful information, about a given page, that will be 'heard' above this noise? If there are two links, one of which is brightly lit up, but useless, and the other obscurely positioned, but useful, then which will be the most popular, with or without entangling?