It feels like post whenever has been really active the last few days. Maybe I just noticed it because it is really picking me a ton. I had a few dev posts I needed to make so I was already on the front page and then post whenever just started piling on top a ton.

Maybe since we made the queue more fair, selecting users with smaller counts more frequently than random, what it really does is delay an unfair condition. Eventually it's going to eat through the banked posts of those with smaller counts and it will start selecting from the person with the most banked posts eventually. If I made it pick evenly all the time this would really be increasing the effect. It would be equal to upping the fair factor all the way up, and then you just get the same effect to the extreme. Eventually there will be no posts in the bank from those who use it less and with one sudden jolt post whenever will just post one person. Some also said that they wanted forward pressure. This is somewhat doing that already. You can't have forward pressure and a perfect round robin selection of whose post gets picked next. It all depends on competing versions of what is fair. Basically what it comes down to is no free lunch.

If one person posts a lot of post whenever and another posts a little then one of a few things has to happen, and picking which one and how much of each one has trade offs. There is no such thing as perfection.

But we can do a few things. First on my end I just made it so it won't post someone who is currently dominate on the front page. It looks at both the whole page and the first 5 posts. If you are the top poster for either of those post whenever is going to choose someone else for a turn to keep the front page even. Mostly that will impact me.

The other thing is getting more users represented in the queue. I just added one more point to the whenever boost so I'd highly encourage trying it. If I have more total users in the queue I can increase the speed of the queue and get posts out of it faster. I'd encourage every user having a few in the bank.

What's great about post whenever is it easily let's you commit 3 posts instead of 1. Or 5 or 10 if you really want. If you found a science article, song, meme, wiki article, or discussion question there is probably more where that came from. Share a few. You can just delay the others and they will dole out over time. You just have to watch that it's not very time sensitive. Because whenever does in fact mean whenever.