Page View Popularity
To enhance the sense of community, and allow ´óÏó´«Ã½ News readers to guage story quality and relevance before they even click the link - you might want to track unique page views and make the information visible.
You could show popularity by highlighting the story links. If a story is more popular, it is more intensely marked. These highlight marks...
These highlight marks would fade out after a few seconds, leaving the page design undamaged.
Readers could quickly find clues to what is important to the community. They may discover that their interests are less important to other readers. Or if an issue is not getting the attention it deserves, the reader would be influenced to start broadcasting the story by forwarding the story link to their friends.
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