Highlighting Popular Posts

Currently, the listing of topics shows # of POSTS. This gives undue prominence to 'harmless fun' threads such as word-association, help-set-a-new-chesscom-record and what-comes-to-mind (to cite the top 3).

It would be more helpful to show # of UNIQUE POSTERS. This would enable threads such as greatest-chess-photos to achieve greater prominence - reflecting the fact that there were a large number of different contributors.

Additionally, when you look at a listing of your own content, you are shown # of VIEWS as well as # of COMMENTS. It would be helpful to show # of UNIQUE VIEWS for the general topics listing. Again, this would highlight the threads of widespread interest over the ones looked at many times by a relatively small group of posters.

This may, of course, be the algorithm currently used for Today's Hot Topics.