Does the specific rankings matter? I'd thought the only metric that matters is on/off frontpage. My assumption(perhaps woefully assuming) is that people scan

Does the specific rankings matter? I'd thought the only metric that matters is on/off frontpage. My assumption(perhaps woefully assuming) is that people scan the front page for new/interesting titles and read them. Not that they think "Oh, I'm not reading that it's only at #13, maybe when it breaks into the top-ten."