> A friend of mine has created and run several user-generated content sites and he said: "user generated content is worthless; largely racism and porn." It's dr

> A friend of mine has created and run several user-generated content sites and he said: "user generated content is worthless; largely racism and porn." It's driven by the lowest common denominator. What about HN? I don't disagree that a lot of ugc on the web is crap. I do think though that there are viable strategies for encouraging quality content.