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I loved the idea Joel proposed in the podcast;

I loved the idea Joel proposed in the podcast;

1. When a question gets upvoted by a user with x reputation (or maybe just upvoted), that upvote buys it y more impressions on the front page than the standard rate. Demonstrably good questions get more eyeballs than questions that haven’t been demonstrated to be good.

2. Users that are relatively trusted by the system get more impressions on the front page for their questions. If you have a couple hundred reputation and you seem like a trusted user, your question gets more eyeballs

1. When a question gets upvoted by a user with x reputation (or maybe just upvoted), that upvote buys it y more impressions on the front page than the standard rate. Demonstrably good questions get more eyeballs than questions that haven’t been demonstrated to be good.

2. Users that are relatively trusted by the system get more impressions on the front page for their questions. If you have a couple hundred reputation and you seem like a trusted user, your question gets more eyeballs

We need to showcase better content. Stack Exchange should be better using the signals it gets from it's users; upvotes, downvotes, close votes, views, time spent on the page, reputaton of the user, past history (or lack thereof) of the user. Why is this paragraph of junk the first question on my homepage?

We need to showcase better content. Stack Exchange should be better using the signals it gets from it's users; upvotes, downvotes, close votes, views, time spent on the page, reputation of the user, past history (or lack thereof) of the user. Why is this paragraph of junk the first question on my homepage?