For the record, I think it’s the wrong call for the EA Forum to show that data to users. I know from looking at that data on LW that it is a terrible and distracting proxy for what the actual great content is on the site. I think every time we’ve done the annual LW review, the most-viewed post that year has not passed review. One of the top 20 most viewed LW posts of all time is a bad joke about having an orange for a head. It’s a spiky metric and everyone I know whose job depends on views/clicks finds it incredibly stressful. Karma is a way better metric for what’s valued on-site, and passing annual review is an even better metric.
For the record, I think it’s the wrong call for the EA Forum to show that data to users. I know from looking at that data on LW that it is a terrible and distracting proxy for what the actual great content is on the site. I think every time we’ve done the annual LW review, the most-viewed post that year has not passed review. One of the top 20 most viewed LW posts of all time is a bad joke about having an orange for a head. It’s a spiky metric and everyone I know whose job depends on views/clicks finds it incredibly stressful. Karma is a way better metric for what’s valued on-site, and passing annual review is an even better metric.