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Comment on Ask HN: Many quality articles don't go to the front page. What is the problem?

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Sometimes I feel like a bit of a freeloader, since I never click on "new" in order to upvote the decent submissions.

The only suggestions that I have would be (1) to automatically load a handful of "new" submissions in a separate section of the main page (at the expense of destroying the current design and cluttering the page), or (2) giving out karma for upvoting new stories (which is ripe for exploitation by simply clicking randomly).

Maybe considering an upvote on new while it's not on the frontpage yet as submitting the article (and thus getting karma according to the votes on the article) can help. Then upvoting good articles on new gets very attractive.

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