If PerlMonks were a newspaper, then each day most of the items on the front page would be the same as yesterday and turning to page two would just get you the things from the front page of a week or more ago. That makes a lousy newspaper (and makes a lousy web site, which is the point of fighting this meme of fear of putting merely ordinary questions, the lion's share of the point of this site, on the front page).

Your analogy is horribly broken and doesn't come close to matching how the front page is actually used here.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: A new year's request: let's keep the Front Page more current (reality) by tye
in thread A new year's request: let's keep the Front Page more current by Arunbear

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