If it’s a non-public view count, I don’t see it becoming a goodheart metric. If something is too clickbait or trash, it would get downvotes. If it doesn’t get downvotes, maybe there’s good reasons.
Maybe it would be worth internally having:
page view count
upvote count
downvote count
vote total (also possibly up and down vote total)
comment count
some sort of relative metric that can compare this article to the other articles nearby.
If it’s a non-public view count, I don’t see it becoming a goodheart metric. If something is too clickbait or trash, it would get downvotes. If it doesn’t get downvotes, maybe there’s good reasons.
Maybe it would be worth internally having:
page view count
upvote count
downvote count
vote total (also possibly up and down vote total)
comment count
some sort of relative metric that can compare this article to the other articles nearby.