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Yes. A lot.

>>tptace+(OP)
can you elaborate?

>>coding+11
What's there to say? Submitters veer off topic. You hit the "flag" button. The story gets marked "dead". How is my life improved by the prospect of having more work to do to groom the site?

It's like people used to say about micropayments; all these little knobs exact a mental cost; I have to spend 5 cycles deciding what to do --- mod up? mod down? what are other people doing? do I need to care?

Seems to me like Hacker News is doing the Simplest Thing That Could Possibly work. A good thing.

>>tptace+B1
The simplest thing is finding and blessing 30 people with the right to kill flagged entries? And trusting those 30 people to do the right thing?

Wouldn't it be simpler to automate the whole thing, and let the algorithm do the work?