At least for fogus and I, 'the same feeds' are geniuses like Christian Neukirchen, not problogger noise. I too despair over cool stuff sliding off the 'new' pa

At least for fogus and I, 'the same feeds' are geniuses like Christian Neukirchen, not problogger noise. I too despair over cool stuff sliding off the 'new' page into oblivion -- the only surefire way for an article to make it to the front page is for multiple people to submit the same URL, which can get rather unlikely for the most valuable posts. I usually try to wait until a reasonable PST hour to submit odd things, just to maximize the chance that clueful users will have the chance to give it those first few upvotes. I do think some countermeasures should be added to news.arc to handle the mainstream spam-stream. I think a good first step would be good to stop counting link-karma towards user totals, but I don't have a clear idea of what else would help.