[RenRav]

You can do without voting. All you need is a way to discern what is popular, in order to display 'popular' and 'new' categories. For example by measuring comments and clicks, maybe the amount of time users spend on the comment page relative to the amount of comments. Not a great idea since it can be gamed, but what can't nowadays.

It would probably favor clickbait, violence, etc like every other system. The only escape from this on a user-submitted site, if there are no subcategories outright banning certain content, is what's already in place, just sorting everything by date.

[lathiat]

content is not valuable just because someone clicked it, you cant know its valuable until after having read it. otherwise its all about the headline, which is a bit of a reality of modern day news, but this would just make that situation worse.

secondly just because you dont want to comment doesn't mean its not valuable.

so basically this just seems like a plainly terrible idea.

[aks579]

Exactly and that's being achieved by the number of comments on a particular post.