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Of course, if many people used that threshold, almost no story would ever reach 100 points in the first place.

• RiderOfGiraffes 16y ago
  This, to me, seems to be the dilemma. The more features like this there are, filtering the input so we only see the "good stuff", the fewer eyes there are on the new submissions, and so the greater the chance that really some excellent submissions will never be seen. More and more we're suggesting that people look at the "newest" page instead of just the "news" page to try to make sure that good submissions get their chance, and bad submissions get flagged, and yet here's another facility to take people away from the "newest" page. Don't get me wrong, I think this is a great facility, and I'm pretty sure I'll be using it on occasion, but I'll also hang out on the "newest" page, because that's where the genuinely interesting stuff appears, often getting no upvotes, because it was never seen.
  • mooism2 16y ago
    Maybe "front-page-with-100-points" is the sort of place newbies should be encouraged to check, and mainly more established users should be encouraged to check "newest".
  • ladoo3 16y ago
    Any ideas on how to encourage readers to look at the "newest" page more often?
• pg 16y ago
  That's why (for now at least) I'm not making it too easy to. It would be trivial to add a threshold field in the profile and use that as a cutoff when generating the frontpage for each user, but since I'm not sure I want encourage this, I haven't yet. The whole thing is just an experiment.
  • dochtman 16y ago
    Maybe there should be a random one or two links from the newest page at the top (or the right) of the normal front page?