sort: I want to be able to sort by date, by mod points, by poster and of course if search is added, sort on my search result:

Views: count the number of time an news item was viewed and also allow me to to sort on this number

views can complement mod points, if an item is viewed like 1000 times and got 55 mod points and another was viewed 55 times and got 55 mod points, well, this is a nice indicator