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Re: Too much Front Paging

by ysth (Canon)
on Sep 24, 2004 at 22:06 UTC ( [id://393692]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Too much Front Paging

There seem to be two conflicting schools of thought on how the front page should be used:

One sees it as an amalgamation of the newest posts from the various section pages (and pretty much any reasonable root node belongs on it), and another sees it as a root node-only, hand-selected version of recent best nodes.

Of the two, I feel the latter is already well handled by best nodes and the nodelets, so I prefer to see the front page used for the former purpose.

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Re^2: Too much Front Paging
by bart (Canon) on Sep 25, 2004 at 18:03 UTC
    I prefer to frontpage a node when it's not yet in best nodes. Often, a node I frontpage only has a rep of 2 at the time — including my own vote. Think of it as a tip, not as a hit parade — which is what best nodes is.

    Everybody knows hit parades don't contain everything that's worth your while.

    And I take pride in later finding nodes I frontpaged, ending up in best nodes.

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