I am liking the sound of this.
My first thoughts are around people trying to game the clicks - most articles are searchable if you include a username. So perhaps something to track unique clicks, and so a bit more work from the gamer required.
That aside, a feed showing most popular 'outdated' articles based on clickthoughs sounds pretty awesome to me, as well as the ability to vote the post, which automatically sends a vote to a comment. @rewarding by @holger80 was something not to dissimilar to this in that it provided a fairly easy way to reward the author (by generating a comment which was 100% beneficiary to the OP). I guess tipping reduced interest.
I might as well take the opportunity to say you and team are doing a sterling job with leofinance. Steemit inc. wanted steemit.com to be the homepage for crypto news, etc, but they failed - hopefully leofinance can crack it!