In my point of view, IFDB has never truly been a stream-of-consciousness output of everything. There has frequently been, at some point, somebody deliberately manipulating what appears on the page.
I’ve been one of those people. I wrote about 60-80 reviews in a couple of weeks once, and I didn’t want to flood the main page, so I timed them to show up 2 a day for a couple months. Then later I used the embargo to hide some reviews of my own I didn’t want to show up on the front page.
There have been several times over the past few years when trolls have put hateful comments up over several days so that the front page was basically ‘USERsuchandsuch SUCKS!’
So the question isn’t, ‘Should someone control the front page?’ It’s, ‘Should we stop letting random people (including me in the past) dictate what we see on the page?’
I think giving people some kind of control over what they want to see on the front page is the best solution. For me personally, I’d like to see less sexual games. Maybe you’d like to see less of a certain group of games, maybe feature old-school or parser games more. Shouldn’t we have a way to tune what we see?
And then the only question is, what should the default experience be? Back to just letting anybody hijack the page whenever they want?