[stomato]

meritocratic - government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability.

I want HN's power to be held by those that are able.

I don't want the current system where we give karma votes to each other to allow each other to downvote. Nor even do I want those without significant knowledge and experience to be able to post or comment at all on the HN frontpage. In the early days, most of those on HN were worth their salt. Those were the ones that talked and the rest of us listened. It's turned into something quite different since, and I believe it's also be driving the global direction of development into a tailspin because of the appearance of authority of those that should not have it influencing behavior.