Maybe not a bad idea, but a moot point for me ... I always view in s/all/new. I personally don't care what's highest up voted or whatever, viewing via all/new I see everything that comes in and I choose what I want to read. It's a small site, so this isn't all that overpowering.
On that note, my suggestion is that there be a 'Default View' option so that we can set /all/new to load when we first visit. I know... I'm fucking lazy, but I've resorted to saving bookmarks directly to /all/new to work around this. I almost never view /all/hot because of the issue OP describes.
Check out new.. all media aggregators work the same. Trending.. most relevant etc.
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