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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by koheripbal on Monday January 25, 2021 @10:31AM (#25904296)
True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links. Server could return random different new posts to different users.

...and it could be every 5th post, so it's not a huge burden.

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Re:Upvote to encourage more people to visit New Links on Hac... by hjek on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:47AM (#25905347)
> True, but not everyone needs to get the same new links.

Yea, as to create some sort of fairness in "guaranteeing" each new story a minimum number of views.

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