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Should we modify the default (front) page for anonymous visitors?

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A complaint we've heard a lot is that when a community's front page has many questions that are not well-received, it deters visitors. (It also deters some people who are already here, I know.) This is not a good look:

post list: 0/0, 0/-2, 2/-5, 0/-2, 0/-3, 0/-6, 1/-1, 0/-3

I'm trying not to embarrass any individuals (though you can go to the obvious community and look). These posts are from several different people, not one.

Should we filter the question list for people who are not logged in? If so, should we also filter it for new users (to be defined), so they don't get a shock right after signup?

I don't think we can (with good performance) do something like "no more than one post meeting these criteria"; I think if we're going to filter things out of the logged-out view, we need to be able to evaluate each post on its own.

(I'll make my proposal an answer, so it will be on equal footing with others' proposals.)

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I suggest we show questions in the list differently depending on their rating. Good questions are show as they are now. …

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How about having another tab (next to "Activity", "Age", "Score", "Random") in the category listing called "Positive", t …

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As a starting point for discussion, I suggest that the logged-out view not show any posts that are closed or have a scor …

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I agree that such a front page looks bad. I also agree with a comment that trying to simply hide poorly received post …

3y ago

Maybe the ordering of the default tab should be more sophisticated, both for logged-out and logged-in users, new or othe …

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Sounds like treating the symptoms instead of the causes (2 comments)

Remove closed posts from view? (2 comments)

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How about having another tab (next to "Activity", "Age", "Score", "Random") in the category listing called "Positive", that would be the new default? When listing by that tab, it would show only positively scored posts.

Users could have a new setting, "Default category sort", where they can choose from "Activity", "Age", "Positive" and maybe the others though I don't really see why one would want to have the others by default. This also solves the newly-registered-user shock problem by leaving it to them to choose to see the more poorly rated posts.

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Score is always positive and this would be a filter, not a sort option (4 comments)

Oh good, that's even simpler. (2 comments)

Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 3 years ago · edited almost 3 years ago

Oh, good idea -- use the controls we have already, and change the default. (We're going to hit a point soon when we have too many buttons there, but by then maybe we'll have built a filtering UI and won't need as many horizontal buttons.)

I agree we don't want to call it "hot". Besides what you said, "hot" implies especially popular/active/voted, when this is really more about filtering out some posts. What remains isn't necessarily hot.

Instead of a preference, we could make the button choice sticky -- you see the view you last chose until you choose something else. Maybe we call this new view "default", to make it easier for people to find their way back if they want to?