User blog comment:Jkl9817/Might be too soon, but... SUGGESTION TIME/@comment-2181164-20120418022253/@comment-1874924-20120419022816

Since we want to put our best foot forward by displaying high-quality stories on the front page, and we should really have finished or near-finished stories in that role, we definitely can't just choose the sampler stories at random. As for having the wiki decide, I don't think it's at all certain that we could round up enough votes to have the results be significantly more meaningful than just having the admins decide after listening to people's input, which is how these things have been handled in the past. I suspect that a popular vote would also create a very strong recency bias, because a lot of the newer users probably aren't familiar with a lot of the older stories.