[jon6]

Stories should be able to be tagged using an arbitrary set of tags similar to stack overflow. Possibly only people with a certain karma should be able to tag stories. Then let people filter stories by the tags it has. This would alleviate the concern of "too many YC posts" because they can be all tagged 'YC' and I can filter those out.

[ColinWright]

I refer my learned colleague to the following ancient poll and discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2367949