I think Abigail's point was: Why push monks to frontpage things? If a post is worthy of frontpaging, then by all means do it. But if it's a slow day full of "homework assignment posts" and "Tell me why my code doesn't work. - Uhhh, you forgot a semicolon." type stuff, why frontpage useless crap just to get something to stop blinking.

And if you are bored of the Monastery Gates, come to the Newest Nodes page. That's my front page.