Especially for non-short posts, I often read and digest the post before looking at comments. Having a tag or other visible indicator that the mods have considered the question and I shouldn’t be quite as distracted as I seem to be by the potential disruption of a political topic would help me.
I don’t look at frontpage much (my bookmark is allPosts), so I don’t distinguish much between promoted and just normal posts. Maybe that’s a problem too—some indication of endorsement that shows on the post when something is promoted to frontpage.
Especially for non-short posts, I often read and digest the post before looking at comments. Having a tag or other visible indicator that the mods have considered the question and I shouldn’t be quite as distracted as I seem to be by the potential disruption of a political topic would help me.
I don’t look at frontpage much (my bookmark is allPosts), so I don’t distinguish much between promoted and just normal posts. Maybe that’s a problem too—some indication of endorsement that shows on the post when something is promoted to frontpage.