If I may briefly interject, one really nice resource for this is the greasemonkey hacker news toolkit script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://u

If I may briefly interject, one really nice resource for this is the greasemonkey hacker news toolkit script http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25039 It can add the 5 newest submissions to the bottom of the front page. This is not a perfect solution, I agree it is a band aid to the larger issue of reducing junk submissions. However, it makes it easier for me to come to the front page and I definitely vote up more from the new page than I used to now (though I always made a conscious effort to go to the new page and vote there as well, to try and get articles I enjoyed onto the front page) I did not write the script, but I do like it =)