> Unless it were curated, which is why people are nice.
Curation could be pretty simple: mere submission isn't enough, the submission has to have made it to the front page.
Given the anti-abuse safeguards already in place here (since getting a submission to the front page is an attractive goal already), I wouldn't expect that any attempts to get a link included in that collection would succeed.
How about making a tag, section or filter that's a "best of"? Maybe even a option to add in old posts to your feed? say at the bottom of the first page is a "best of" submission.
I'm reminded of this:
https://xkcd.com/1053/
Personally, when I'm reading something, or after I've read it, I think "Did I learn something? Was I entertained? Was it of value?
This one was of value the first few times I read it, and I don't begrudge that for people who are meeting it for the first (or tenth) time.