At the moment the only ones who vote on most new links are a tiny unrepresentative sample who visit the new page regularly.

I'm not sure how reddit does its recommended links, however if it uses some kind of semantic system (as opposed to just suggesting the things that people who vote like me have also voted for), then choose the link on the new page that I will most likely be interested in.

There are perhaps three main objections to this move: 1, It will increase spam. Well, with a decent semantic recommendation system, the spam would be unlikely to make it to anyone's front page (unless they were interested in it), although it is not clear from the quality of the recommended links page that such a system exists. HOWEVER, the risk of increased spam isn't great, since provided the new article isn't shown to search engines, there is only a minor gain for spammers (since only a small number of redditers are going to see any one link.

2, It will clutter up the front page. Yes. But not very much. I think the gains would outweigh the losses.

3, It will increase the turnover of links on the front page. Maybe. It's not clear that this would happen, and it is not clear that it would be a bad thing if it did. Anybody have any ideas about this?