I would be nervous about discouraging new users. There’s a high bar for what gets upvoted here on the forum. Especially for VERY new users I’d be nervous about not giving the opportunity for their post to be on the frontpage—maybe it can depend on if you think the post is decent or not?
Ah yeah sorry I was unclear! I basically meant what you said when I said “at their discretion, but starting conservatively” — so we are starting to take “quality” into account when deciding what stays in the Frontpage, because our readers’ time is valuable. You can kind of think of it like: if the mod would have downvoted a post from a new user, the mod can instead decide to move it to “Personal blog”. I think it’s possible that this is actually less discouraging to new users than getting downvoted, since it’s like you’re being moved to a category with different standards. You can check our work by looking at what gets categorized as “Personal blog” via the All posts page. :)
I expect this will affect only a small proportion of new users.
I would be nervous about discouraging new users. There’s a high bar for what gets upvoted here on the forum. Especially for VERY new users I’d be nervous about not giving the opportunity for their post to be on the frontpage—maybe it can depend on if you think the post is decent or not?
Ah yeah sorry I was unclear! I basically meant what you said when I said “at their discretion, but starting conservatively” — so we are starting to take “quality” into account when deciding what stays in the Frontpage, because our readers’ time is valuable. You can kind of think of it like: if the mod would have downvoted a post from a new user, the mod can instead decide to move it to “Personal blog”. I think it’s possible that this is actually less discouraging to new users than getting downvoted, since it’s like you’re being moved to a category with different standards. You can check our work by looking at what gets categorized as “Personal blog” via the All posts page. :)
I expect this will affect only a small proportion of new users.