&gt; A better way to filter those out algorithmically would be to simply look at the thumbs-up vs thumbs-down ratio.<p>&gt; The ones with misleading titles&#x2F;thumbnails often have far more down-votes than up-votes<p>Especially once the total votes pass a certain threshold.  Below a certain threshold, any activity makes something interesting; you wouldn&#x27;t want to let a handful of downvotes bury something early on (as in, 4 upvotes and 6 downvotes).  But once you hit the hundreds or thousands of votes, the ratio should take over.