Comment on Why don't more filtering systems enable sorting by least viewed/visited, including for older pages/material?

e0qdk@reddthat.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

That requires turning every read into a write – which is slow/expensive generally. (That might not matter much for Google – who try to record everything you ever do already, basically – but it matters for everyone else.)

Also, it tends to promote spam and offensive niche content. kbin’s got a sidebar that tries to promote random low activity communities and posts, for example, and it’s almost uncanny how much crap it pushes up…

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