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dangyesterday at 5:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

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.


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andrewflnryesterday at 5:25 PM

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.

tech234ayesterday at 7:24 PM

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