I have seen enough offenders over the years to make it a real issue. 30 posts is a very small sample. The posts at the very top of the page get far and away the most views. I know that I often glance at the BST front page and if I see the same first post in each category, I assume that nothing new has been listed. Many others do the exact same thing. The page view numbers (both on this site and on my imageevent site) bear that out. You knock a post off the top peg and you cut the potential page views, at a minimum, in half.
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