Indeed that was exactly what I was thinking. Doing it. But then this would require perusing through all of it, a very exciting, but practically unfeasible task in worth-while time.
Less, but only slightly. Click on the recent posts link and browse through and read all the posts with more than 70 votes. Time taken is negligibly different to just reading the posts. In fact it is exactly what I would end up doing if I were to do a collation, despite the fact that I have read most of them.
Obviously once you run out of low hanging fruit (+70 votes posts) there would still be good content to find that would require more discretion and searching.
The advantage of making the list as someone who hasn’t read it all before is that at least the process is more directly useful and potentially interesting.
Indeed that was exactly what I was thinking. Doing it. But then this would require perusing through all of it, a very exciting, but practically unfeasible task in worth-while time.
Why? It seems to me that it would take however long the editor chose to spend. He need not complete the task!
Consider the cost of doing this if you have already read it versus if you didn’t.
Less, but only slightly. Click on the recent posts link and browse through and read all the posts with more than 70 votes. Time taken is negligibly different to just reading the posts. In fact it is exactly what I would end up doing if I were to do a collation, despite the fact that I have read most of them.
Obviously once you run out of low hanging fruit (+70 votes posts) there would still be good content to find that would require more discretion and searching.
The advantage of making the list as someone who hasn’t read it all before is that at least the process is more directly useful and potentially interesting.