A little OT...but what's with Svbtle's apparent default styling of links? There's no indication that any particular word or sentence contains a link, which basically makes those links invisible to readers. Or do lots of people read web articles by randomly hovering the mouse around the text?
But relevant to the OP...I generally try to save useful tutorials like this on my pinboard, which often doesn't pick up the meta-description text. So I double-click to copy the first paragraph and paste it into pinboard...except in the OP, I kept on clicking on text that was hiding links underneath.
It's a strange UI decision, and one that seems to discourage the use of outbound links...if you can't see the links, then what is the purpose of them? For spiders?