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by leeoniya 4652 days ago
i find this indicator not to be consistently reliable. anything that gets to the front page (which will never be pure crap), will always get upvotes.

but many (all?) submissions that make it to the front page get there by being manually curated there, not by accumulating upvotes first. on the flip side of the same coin, a lot of good things never make it to the front page, even if they gain a lot of points.