The fact that front-paged nodes get more votes convinces me that we have a lot of visitors (it seems, most of our visitors) that primarilly hit the front page. This means that if you don't front-page a node, then most of our members likely won't even know about it. I think only a small fraction of our nodes deserve such obscurity.

Most nodes should be front-paged. We don't want a static front page. The front page size is such that about one day's worth of nodes will fit on it. If we (again) return to rarely front-paging nodes, then we'll (again) have a front page that hardly changes after a week. For more details, see the other threads on front-paging.

I think you are way too worried about XP. Besides, if we front-page nearly every node, then they'll all get lots of XP and we'll all be happy. If we only front-page a few, then the disparity will just get bigger and make you worry more. (:

                - tye

In reply to Re: Front-paging and XP by tye
in thread Front-paging and XP by spurperl

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