I think the problem is that most of the people on HN are of a relatively high quality. People who's votes don't count and people who's votes do count, all votin

I think the problem is that most of the people on HN are of a relatively high quality. People who's votes don't count and people who's votes do count, all voting on something, doesn't necessarily lead to diminished results in the quality of what gets upvoted. The problem is that the special few who get disenfranchised have no idea such a thing has happened, and apparently it's not happening because they are trolls or expressing some other type of undesirable behavior, it's happening purely based off of some arbitrary calculation of the week that's otherwise completely hidden from the users -- so in the end there's no reason at all for it to be part of the system.