I had remembered reading about how you could use the rating system mentioned at http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html http://www.evan

I had remembered reading about how you could use the rating system mentioned at http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.... to determine what was abusive as well as what was good. So you could quantify 'linkbaitiness' if you set the pos to be the number of people who viewed an item without voting for it, and n to the number of viewers, as long as people are less likely to up-vote linkbait than quality. I figured that the last bit is a big if so I just phrased it as a question.