Those are great ideas. I suppose the big centralized media companies track IP addresses as the main component of thwarting botting. I'm not sure if Hive even tracks that as it would go against privacy and all that.
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I'm sure they could tap into Google Analytics and see how many unique views the post had.
Fantastic idea and yes, relying on Google Analytics would be a good proxy, without having to do the effort. Perhaps a combination of unique views and time on page relative to the estimated reading time would be a good way to display trending or hot lists.