I also find that clearing the clutter is an all-or-nothing proposition annoying. Iexpect, though, that dws is correct in that the overhead might be excessive.

OTOH, the whole voting thing seems to be per-user, per node, isn't it? Given that, how much more overhead could a simple "I've seen it" flag be?

Of course, even so, building the Newest Nodes page might take too long ...

.02

dmm