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Posted by ColinWright 3 hours ago

Poll: How often do you check "newest"?

Submissions rely on early upvotes to get to the main page, and I was wondering how many people actually visit "newest" to give those submissions a chance.

It would be nice to correlate this with people who have "Show Dead" turned on, but this is a start. Polls suffer from selection bias, but it might be interesting.

Pick whichever is closest ...

25 points | 24 commentspage 2
techteach00 1 hour ago|
If I get past page 3 without seeing anything interesting I will generally try new.
theandrewbailey 3 hours ago||
Every time I come to HN, I go to newest first before really looking at the main page.
econ 1 hour ago||
Change the link text from new to newest. Use the big word.
Imustaskforhelp 1 hour ago||
Whenever I interact with the main posts of Hackernews and I am interested for more, which happens almost multiple times per day or atleast once a day.
GaryBluto 1 hour ago||
Very rarely, showdead on
mhitza 1 hour ago||
Couple of times a year.
abcd_f 1 hour ago||
Twice a year
SanjayMehta 1 hour ago||
I don't even know how to check newest except by accident.
josefritzishere 1 hour ago||
I use https://hckrnews.com/ . I prefer new over upvoted.
manfromchina1 3 hours ago|
I rarely go to the front page.