The front page has definitely gotten worse over time. More people doesn't actually imply better judgement in story quality. The moderators have admitted that their goal is to slow the inevitable decline in the quality of the site that comes with a bigger audience; they have no illusions that the site would somehow manage to break the only replicable rule of the internet, that any site will get worse with a wider audience.
It fluctuates but I think overall it’s been very consistent over time and I joined in 2007. Some of the low points where Bitcoin article spam, and various political issues. But, I still see plenty of of stuff from time to time including a very long tendency for random Wikipedia pages to make the front page.
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The front page has definitely gotten worse over time. More people doesn't actually imply better judgement in story quality. The moderators have admitted that their goal is to slow the inevitable decline in the quality of the site that comes with a bigger audience; they have no illusions that the site would somehow manage to break the only replicable rule of the internet, that any site will get worse with a wider audience.
It fluctuates but I think overall it’s been very consistent over time and I joined in 2007. Some of the low points where Bitcoin article spam, and various political issues. But, I still see plenty of of stuff from time to time including a very long tendency for random Wikipedia pages to make the front page.
Edit yep there was one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun