This idea came to me just suddenly.
Every once in a while I force myself to enter the Newest Nodes area and clear the list.
I myself don't use the Newest Nodes section very often and thought of this:
Under User Settings, there could be an option where each user can decide how often the list should be automatically cleared.
For instance, I myself would have the list clear itself every 12 hours.
Because face it: if I don't check out the list for new nodes within 12 hours, chances are I'll never want to see them any later than that.
Users could decide between say, 6, 12, 18, 24 hours or 2-10 days.
Does anyone think this is a bad idea, a good idea, or neither here nor there?

In reply to Clearing Newest Nodes by mt2k

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.