Update, 12/7/21: As an experiment, we're trying out a longer-running Open Thread that isn't refreshed each month. We've set this thread to display new comments first by default, rather than high-karma comments.
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Last year there were 2062 Frontpage posts and 82 Personal Blogposts. By default, Personal Blogposts are hidden from view — you have to search for them in All Posts or change your settings to view them.
Clearly "selected by moderators as especially interesting or useful" isn't really true, since Frontpage both is the default and is the status of over 96% of last year's posts. I'm not sure what to think of this. On balance, I guess I like that moderators have the ability to torpedo a post's visibility without deleting it. But at the least, I'm uncomfortable with the description of Frontpage vs Personal Blogposts quoted above.
This description has been out of date for a long time, and I thought the Forum team had updated it a while ago. Might be a merge issue that reinstituted some old language, or maybe we updated in some places but not others.
While I'm no longer a moderator, I should clarify that we never used "Personal Blog" to "torpedo a post's visibility". If we thought a post shouldn't have been visible, we moved it back to a draft (many instances of spam, exactly one instance I can recall of an infohazard concern). Otherwise, it's always been up to the voters.
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