Sorry for yet another "meta" post from me. But on the subject matter of frontpaging I am aware both of What nodes should/should not be FrontPaged? and the classic discussion referenced there, yet I'm asking here because I was specifically thinking of a thread I recently stumbled upon: under the fairly common and totally uninformative name of Regex help it started with a badly posed question which got deservedly downvoted. By all means, according to those readings, that particular node should not be frontpaged. But after all the question behind the mess was interesting, and even more so (some of) the answers that were given. So if it were not just for the root node... the thread in and of itself IMHO would have deserved being frontpaged. What can one do in these cases?

Update: thread referenced above now frontpaged out of apparent general consensus - albeit on a limited statistical sample. Still taking into account of extracting useful info and expanding on the subject in a separate meditation as hinted by halley and graff.

In reply to How to frontpage the unfrontpageable? by blazar

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