Hotlist | Replies | Stories (+poll)

This is a survey to find out who uses the Hotlist | Replies | Stories box on the main page, and how they use it.

This little right-column box has currently been banished to the bottom of the Diaries list, so if you keep your Diaries list at 50, that's a loooong way down. If the feature is really not used much, scrolling down is fine, but if a lot of people are wanting to check it every time they reload the front page, good user design would suggest it ought to be moved up.

It seems to me that because it is informational, click stats can't be telling the whole story about how much it is being used. The box gives both positive and negative information -- knowing that no change has happened is just as useful as being notified that a change has occurred.

Since the click stats won't give the full picture here, I thought I'd throw out a quick poll to find out about actual usage.