[jacoblyles]

>" If people don't like certain posts they won't vote for them."

That's an excellent recipe for the Lowest Common Denominator. Welcome to the internet, where it is September all the time.

[petercooper]

This isn't a mass market site. The lowest common denominator on Hacker News should be orders of magnitude above the mean. If you think a cabal of top users should curate the content, that's cool, but that's a different idea to be discussed.