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Meta: Cleaning the front page

48 Post author: Tesseract 20 December 2010 04:45AM

All the meetup announcements get promoted, so the front page ends up full of 'em: half of it right now (5/10) is meetup announcements, and with the addition of the quote threads only 30% of the front page is currently 'content'. While meetup announcements are all well and good, it seems counterproductive to have them up there after the meetup date, as is the case with four out of the current five -- it just clutters up the front page even more without providing any benefit.

If post promotion is reversible, it would seem to be a simple step for one of the moderators to depromote each meetup announcement once it's taken place.

(Apologies if this is the wrong place to put an organizational suggestion; I didn't find any obvious better place.)

Comments (8)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 December 2010 07:51:13AM 15 points [-]

Remind me if I or the other admins forget to do this henceforth.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 21 December 2010 09:22:47PM 6 points [-]

Who are the other admins?

Comment author: jsalvatier 20 December 2010 06:57:45AM 3 points [-]

I agree that having this clutter is annoying.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 December 2010 05:08:47AM 3 points [-]

Can't think of a better place. Second the suggestion.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 20 December 2010 08:25:47PM 2 points [-]

Definitely do this. I tend to ignore the main page in favor of the discussion section because it's all meetup announcements.

Comment author: FAWS 21 December 2010 11:39:19AM 4 points [-]

Are you aware that unlike in the discussion section only a small fraction of the main section post ever get to the front page and you have to look at the Recent Posts bar (or the Recent Posts page, or Follow links in Recent Comments, or ...) to see the others?

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 21 December 2010 12:40:44PM 1 point [-]

Oh! I didn't realize that. Thank you for the info, I'm still getting the hang of this site.

Comment author: lukeprog 20 December 2010 07:46:41AM 1 point [-]

I third the suggestion.