There's also a repost stream, yet the fun stream is clogged with reposts too. Much of the time, it's also kids who see something get popular so they all post the same thing ad nauseum. It does get frustrating because lately, a lot of reposts have been making it to the top pages and I don't mean just stuff that sounds familiar, I mean things that are image for image word for word copies of things I've seen at least a dozen times already within the last few weeks.
Views seem logical to me, it should just be the number of people who click on the page. I don't have any idea what determine's what's "hot" because I've seen posts with less views and upvotes over a longer period of time than some of mine.
The way it should be is people check out the Latest tab and comment on stuff they like. Problem is, I can only look at so many "My mom said..." or " UR Mom Gay, No U" posts before I give up and just comment on friends' stuff.
There are some people who never visit the latest tab. Some of them will upvote everything on there without regard, so I think that's a big contributor to seeing all the same stuff all the time