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>>pg+(OP)
A final thought: If you don't discriminate between the actions of the vast majority, and the actions of those identified as being aligned with your desired intentions for the site, nothing will work. I can probably "prove" that.

I think any solution will require the identification of individuals whose actions are "more trustworthy," and giving them greater weight, or more powers.

Anything else can and will be swamped by the majority, whose intentions you have no control over, and no reason to trust.

>>RiderO+Rb
"I think any solution will require the identification of individuals whose actions are "more trustworthy," and giving them greater weight, or more powers."

Yes, but the greater weight they get need not apply indiscriminately to all users of HN.

The simple act of voting on a comment implicitly indicates which other users a given user trusts and thinks should have greater weight. Namely, they are the other users who voted the same way on that comment.

A system could be developed which takes advantage of that information to give each user a personalized view of HN comments and articles.

I describe a scheme to do just that elsewhere in this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2405266