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We tried that once and it failed, because the median random submission is so much lower-quality than the rest of the frontpage. People reacted much as they would to finding kitchen compost in their breakfast cereal.


I definitely think this is a good idea for a new social platform, though. Probably the key is setting expectations correctly.

I do wonder if a new post quarantine box on the front page, marked as such, would do better than just mixing them in.


Maybe this could be an option to enable in profile settings?




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