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Re:Salmon is disappearing. by edw519 on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @07:32PM (#214419)
"Isn't there some way to improve the incentives on issuing the first few votes?"

Making the "new" link on the header bar much more prominent?

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Re:Salmon is disappearing. by tokipin on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @08:01PM (#214449)
i discovered the 'new' link several months after i joined. the reason is because i thought new stories automatically appeared on the front page, and would simply sink fairly fast if nobody upvoted them. but it turns out they first arrive in some sort of purgatory from whence they must be uplifted
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