Leaving the numbers in is what makes this useful. "A thread with twenty readers doesn't have many to lend" is a great way to put it. As a solo founder doing build-in-public across a few platforms, I've been treating every reply as the same effort, and this is a good reason not to. Checking a post's view count before replying is such a simple filter. Did the ranked threads beat the 1–2 view baseline on day two?