On the home page of SP in the section for new members it says " Shape the content of the site by voting on other people's work. The bad submissions get buried, and the good stuff rises to the top."

Doesn't it kind of seem like all the new stuff sort of starts out somewhat "buried" to begin with? Unless I am missing a feature somewhere, it seems like there isn't really a place that visibly showcases new content to allow people to consider it and vote it up or down. It almost feels like people just have to randomly stumble upon new content. Am I missing something or does anyone else feel this way?

Bob Sihler wrote:http://www.summitpost.org/whats-new

So what you're saying is that I should click the "what's new" tab to find all the new stuff? Why do they have to make it so confusing??

Welcome to SP!! Characters welcomed!

It's mainly a popularity contest. A mountain that everybody climbs, that really needs no beta, tends to get a lot of votes.

It's been like this since global warming and reality TV.

On the home page of SP in the section for new members it says " Shape the content of the site by voting on other people's work. The bad submissions get buried, and the good stuff rises to the top."

In the early days of SPv2, all pages (mountain, route, etc.) by default would be arranged by quality, rather than alphabetically. That's when the above quote was written.

A lot of SP members (including myself) didn't like the mountain pages to be arranged by quality by default. My own thought was "who decides to climb a particular mountain based on the the number of votes the page got". Because several members didn't like the default to be arranged by quality, it was changed to arranging them alphabetically, which makes more sense in my opinion.

Trip reports and photos are still arranged by "quality" by default, but objects like Mountains, Routes, and Area/Ranges no longer are.