The frontpage should show you not only recent content, but also show you much older historical content
When I was a starry eyed undergrad, I liked to imagine that reddit might resurrect old posts if they gained renewed interest, if someone rediscovered something and gave it a hard upvote, that would put it in front of more judges, which might lead to a cascade of re-approval that hoists the post back into the spotlight. There would be no need for reposts, evergreen content would get due recognition, a post wouldn’t be done until the interest of the subreddit (or, generally, user cohort) is really gone.
Of course, reddit doesn’t do that at all. Along with the fact that threads are locked after a year, this is one of many reasons it’s hard to justify putting a lot of time into writing for reddit.
When I was a starry eyed undergrad, I liked to imagine that reddit might resurrect old posts if they gained renewed interest, if someone rediscovered something and gave it a hard upvote, that would put it in front of more judges, which might lead to a cascade of re-approval that hoists the post back into the spotlight. There would be no need for reposts, evergreen content would get due recognition, a post wouldn’t be done until the interest of the subreddit (or, generally, user cohort) is really gone.
Of course, reddit doesn’t do that at all. Along with the fact that threads are locked after a year, this is one of many reasons it’s hard to justify putting a lot of time into writing for reddit.