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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by lukeschlather on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:11PM (#1998421)
I doubt it. I think most of us are deliberately conservative to offset the lack of downvotes.
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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by forza on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:38PM (#1998499)
Isn't that the opposite to what you should do? If you are interested in curbing 'bad' stories you should probably vote for more stories, effectively 'downvoting' what you don't vote for.
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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by swolchok on Sunday December 12, 2010 @11:38PM (#1999343)
Not if you think that a lot of crap gets voted up and truly good stories are few and far between.
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