Wouldn't it be much better to base this off the upvotes of people with similar tastes instead of e.g. the article text? That might get you the best of both worl

Wouldn't it be much better to base this off the upvotes of people with similar tastes instead of e.g. the article text? That might get you the best of both worlds (social/Bayesian filtering.) It's possible that you already meant this, but it wasn't clear to me, at least...