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		Fuzzwah on Sept 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ready For a Reddit Replacement? I've always wondered why these aggregation sites need up and down voting at all. Can't we just compare the number of times the link has been displayed to users with the number of clicks on the link?

stewbrew on Sept 1, 2011 [–]

This would measure the popularity of titles/headlines (and maybe domain names) but not of content.

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