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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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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)
Score is always positive and this would be a filter, not a sort option
Trilarion‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Small nitpicking. I think the calculated score is always positive (between 0 and 1). You probably want to have a certain threshold there instead (let's say score > 0.4 for example). Positive might then not be the right word either, maybe more like "Useful", which would be the right word. Also it would be a filter, not a sort option. Sort options affect the order. Filters suppress items from being displayed. So instead of calling it a sort order, have a default filter on the score instead. We would need to display filters first.

Moshi‭ wrote about 3 years ago

To be fair, we already have the Native filter that is grouped with the sorting tabs.

Trilarion‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Okay, probably we should separate filters and sort orders, if only to be able to combine them independently. Maybe there is already a feature request about it somewhere and the programmers simply didn't come around to it yet... Will search for it.

Monica Cellio‭ wrote about 3 years ago

Filters as a separate thing are part of that feature request I want to write but haven't yet. (The main part is "user-defined", but that pretty much forces separate placement.)