As far as I can tell “promoted” is meaningful because (a) there’s a promoted RSS feed (b) it goes to the LW twitter feed. Posts get “promoted” by people who have admin powers, but most of the users with admin powers left a while ago. I think I would kill “promoted” and maybe make it so if you discussion post gets at least +4 or something it goes to the old promoted RSS feed and the twitter feed.
As far as I can tell “promoted” is meaningful because (a) there’s a promoted RSS feed (b) it goes to the LW twitter feed. Posts get “promoted” by people who have admin powers, but most of the users with admin powers left a while ago. I think I would kill “promoted” and maybe make it so if you discussion post gets at least +4 or something it goes to the old promoted RSS feed and the twitter feed.