This is what I posted in the suggestions part of the forum, I think this could be a very good addition to DA:

Hey everybody,

There are two ways to sort deviations, namely Newest and Popular.
I think that it is hard for a newcomer to get good exposure even if he/she has the most beautiful art in the world.
If you look to the newest item, they are gone in a sec.
If you look to the most popular they have to be very lucky to get in that list if your new.

I want to suggest an alternative way to sort them, by a kind of rating system.
What I think how a rating system could possibly look is:
- Count the number of unique DA members that watched the image/movie/literature etc. (say number x)
- Count the number of favorites they have given. (say number y)
- Divide the number y by x and multiply by 100 and you have the 'rating' of that deviation.

An example:

If I look to two pictures that are right beside each other in the list 'opular last 24 hours'.
One (that is more popular) has 900 favs of the 15000 views and the other 500 favs of the 3500 views.
I would say (900 / 15000) * 100 = 6 is not a good as (500 / 3500) * 100 = 14.
Therefor in a rating system the last image should be better than the image before (and a lot before that).

I think if there is a good rating system next to the popular and newest system,
this could be a welcome addition to DA!