Yes, the homepage is not showing Stack Apps in its best light.

As a mitigation that we can all do now:

###Prepend "OBSOLETE - " or "PLACEHOLDER - " to the title, if appropriate. (In addition to those 2 tags.)

Note that Power users can grey out or hide such questions:

Yes, the homepage is not showing Stack Apps in its best light.

As a mitigation that we can all do now:

Prepend "OBSOLETE - " or "PLACEHOLDER - " to the title, if appropriate.

(In addition to those 2 tags.)

Note that Power users can grey out or hide such questions:

I'm not comfortable with auto-hiding any questions^‡

1. If they shouldn't show up, they should probably be deleted.
2. Even obsolete or placeholder questions can be useful to other users, even new visitors/searchers.
3. Power users can grey out or hide such questions:

Admittedly, newer users may not be aware of such a feature, so:

4. This further illustrates the usefulness of placing "OBSOLETE - " or "PLACEHOLDER - " in the title, if appropriate.

5. And the obsolete/placeholder title snippets should be at the beginning of the title.

^‡ Except, maybe, some hypothetical locked questions

Yes, the homepage is not showing Stack Apps in its best light.

As a mitigation that we can all do now:

###Prepend "OBSOLETE - " or "PLACEHOLDER - " to the title, if appropriate. (In addition to those 2 tags.)

Note that Power users can grey out or hide such questions: