HN voting is a trivial example of selection bias. If frontpage was determined by a random sampling of the user base (weighted by karma or age if you like), inst

HN voting is a trivial example of selection bias. If frontpage was determined by a random sampling of the user base (weighted by karma or age if you like), instead of whoever may go looking for the post, it would be more fair. One of the reddit devs suggested something like this recently, putting a New post on every page.