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>>gaika+(OP)
Can someone give us (or at least me) the gist of what he's saying?

>>pg+p2
Systematic factors inherent to social news sites degrade their quality over time. Voting is broken because of the nature of the people who vote the most and thus have the most influence on the front page: They are people with too much time on their hands. That is, anyone with a worthwhile opinion is off doing other things more important than commenting or voting on a news site.

This isn't to say I agree, I'm just trying to summarize the relevant bits as best as I can.

>>ambiti+E2
Restricting the content seems to solve that problem. As long as you don't allow the kind of articles these people like, they won't frequent your site.

I haven't noticed significant degradation in quality since we started News.YC. In fact, it's gotten better, because when we started it was called "Startup News" and there were a lot of crappy gung-ho articles about "entrepreneurship."