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in thread Why should I frontpage a node?

If it has good replies, that is a good reason to front-page it (so lots of people will see the good replies). It it has no replies, that is also a good reason to front-page it (to increase the odds of it getting answered). There is no conflict here. If it has replies but none of them are good, then you should also front-page it (to increase the chance of a good reply being made).

Long ago I recall reading about when to front-page and the only hard rule was related to "length". Doing a quick check, I don't see that in the site documentation. So I suspect the good documentation on when to front-page is not in the standard documentation (and most of it is outdated; being from before we realized that the front page was being heavily used to navigate the site rather than as just a splash page for casual visitors).

                - tye
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Re: Why should I frontpage a node? (both!)
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Apr 23, 2003 at 11:34 UTC
    If it has good replies, that is a good reason to front-page it (so lots of people will see the good replies). It it has no replies, that is also a good reason to front-page it (to increase the odds of it getting answered). There is no conflict here. If it has replies but none of them are good, then you should also front-page it (to increase the chance of a good reply being made).

    Aren't you just saying, "frontpage everything"? That's a process that could be automated.

    Abigail

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      An automated process will not prevent trolls or write-this-application-for-me type posts from getting on the frontpage, where they don't belong. The overwhelming bulk of messages does not belong in those categories and so can go on the frontpage - the few that do however, can't be filtered automatically.

      Makeshifts last the longest.

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        You could invert the logic. Automatically FP posts say 4 hours after they were posted if they haven't been

        [X] Don't front-page,

        though this would probably cause as many problems as it might fix.

        Examine what is said, not who speaks.
        1) When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
        2) The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible
        3) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
        Arthur C. Clarke.
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