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

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 po...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2021-12-07T02:57:16Z (almost 3 years ago)
Thinking more, "Hot" is kind of a terrible name for it
  • How about having another tab (next to "Activity", "Age", "Score", "Random") in the category listing called "Positive" or "Hot"[^1], 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.
  • [^1]: Though that might be confusing since we also have hot posts in the side widget
  • 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.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Moshi‭ · 2021-12-07T02:43:16Z (almost 3 years ago)
How about having another tab (next to "Activity", "Age", "Score", "Random") in the category listing called "Positive" or "Hot"[^1], 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.

[^1]: Though that might be confusing since we also have hot posts in the side widget