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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by gcv on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:30PM (#1998474)
While this is a really, really tempting front page, won't this just encourage groupthink? HN doesn't suffer from this as much it might, but it has its share. In addition, interesting stories languish unnoticed on /newest all the time, and if enough people switch to an >100 front page, articles with just 5-10 points have an even smaller chance of being noticed.

pg, I'm sure you considered this problem; could you talk a bit about your thinking behind this filter?

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by pg on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:16PM (#1998770)
could you talk a bit about your thinking behind this filter?

"A lot of people have asked for it. It would be easy to write. Let's try it and see what happens."

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by netcan on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:53PM (#1998885)
Do you have some sort of pre-existing test for whether or not a feature is good at the time you implement it. Some way of knowing if it's good.
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