[glanch]

Imagine Facebook with this rule: when a user posts content, that content is rated by popularity (number of likes/shares/comments). Every user has a popularity score. Users can opt in to being ranked on a public popularity list in, let's say, up to 3 categories like Sports, Tech, Music, Politics, etc. Any FB user can check out the "top 50" lists for topics they're interested in, and subscribe/friend/follow people that are on those lists.

[derefr]

Why are you asking me to imagine Facebook with the rule that it's Reddit and not Facebook?

[c1sc0]

So you're basically saying that the solution to our content quality problem is turning it into a popularity contest?

[glanch]

Categorized popularity. If a user in interested in a topic, they would have the ability to find the prominent voices related to that topic.