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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by ary on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:56PM (#1998553)
This has probably been suggested before, but can we just get rid of the points display (story, comment, & user) altogether? The automated sorting on this data has always been enough for me, and I can't think of a reason why any of us needs to know the exact point total of any of these things (except maybe karma).

I suppose there are some out there that would like to know an individual user's karma as a quick indicator of worthiness for X. Aside from this I'd be thrilled to see the number games and measuring sticks go away.

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by tomn on Sunday December 12, 2010 @10:19PM (#1999119)
This doesn't really work, because things with high points can be anywhere on the page after they've stopped getting votes -- if you look at the front page, the stories aren't in point order by any means.

Although this would be bad for the community (people need to see the low-point articles for them to get voted on), you could have a page that sorts all stories by number of points, and allows you to remove them either by clicking on them, or marking them as uninteresting. It would solve the 'problem' of missing articles when I'm away at least.

I guess you could have some kind of mix of new and highly voted articles, which could be interesting?

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Re:The frontpage with a threshold of 100 points by zacharycohn on Sunday December 12, 2010 @07:24PM (#1998628)
That would be an interesting experiment in preventing the "snowball effect" of upvoting things that a lot of other people have upvoted. Enabling this on the front page, but leaving it on the thread itself would be an interesting experiment.
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