As most people have said, the decision to frontpage a node is not written in stone. Personally, I would also have to agree with the others and say that we should try to "keep it fresh." A lot of questions can be answered with a reference to an FAQ, or even another node. However, there are some topics that are so frequent, yet so interesting, that they should be frontpaged more often than not. If you think you should frontpage either type of node, we're not going to hang you for it. Some of us might wonder why you frontpaged it, but that's about it. Then again, if you don't frontpage it, somebody else probably will.

I guess one thing that we should take from your question (and quite interesting discussion sparked from it), is that we should all be (ab)using our level 6+ powers more frequently. There's only so much space on the front page. Let's make it look nice to new users (so they'll join... *wink, wink*) as well as try to put some light on some nodes, that while interesting, go almost unnoticed. This is one of those things that we'll never get perfect, so let's just try to find a happy medium.

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In reply to Re: Why should I frontpage a node? by Necos
in thread Why should I frontpage a node? by crenz

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