I guess a bit of benevolent dictatorship is required in keeping the signal/noise ratio high by one/small set of HN folks. I guess there isn't a single solution

I guess a bit of benevolent dictatorship is required in keeping the signal/noise ratio high by one/small set of HN folks. I guess there isn't a single solution, any community site needs to keep adapting to: 1. the raising competence of the current user base & 2. the wave of new users I remember, during the early days of Joel on Software, we used put up Job descriptions, and Joel used to send folks emails and dissuade them from doing so -- and now he a nice money spinner with JoS job board.