News.YC is a community. Our individual behaviour taken as a collective is what constitutes the dynamics that emerge. There are benefits to both maintaining an

News.YC is a community. Our individual behaviour taken as a collective is what constitutes the dynamics that emerge. There are benefits to both maintaining an organic element of letting the community choose for themselves and to having some mathematical/code-based governance. At the same time, there are a number of assumptions in both the formula above (as well as the title mind you) and its description that are more in favor of eliminating the diversity. This could detract from the whole user experience. While I personally don't like the fluff, the diversity it affords us all more valuable than having our contributions be governed by an equation...