I've installed a few plugins recently, one of them is called "Popularity Contest". It allows you to weight hits to articles and then lists the most-viewed articles. I thought that this would be a neat way to pull dusty articles back out to the front page but it hasn't worked out that way because, so far, the stories that are listed in the list encourage visitors to click and read... which bumps up the score EVEN MORE for the articles on this "often viewed" list.
From what I can tell it will just be a trailing list of recently posted articles. Heck, some articles might have such ridiculously skewed numbers that they NEVER fall off the list.
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