[threeseed]

I just went to a popular article by the New York Times on Facebook. Just by scrolling down through the pages of comments I could determine that it was likely to be a popular article.

Go ahead remove the number of comments. It won't solve the problem Facebook is trying to solve.

[themagician]

Yeah, but you actually had to do that. You didn’t get to just look at the headline and see how many people agreed with it before you even read it.

You would, of course, have to combine this with not just showing it to people who already hold those opinions.