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I think sites that use a voting mechanism to rank content will always favor "power users" who are able to coordinate an effort to get content voted on. Part of

I think sites that use a voting mechanism to rank content will always favor "power users" who are able to coordinate an effort to get content voted on. Part of the reason for this is that regular users don't have a lot of incentive to spend time under "new" curating content, and it is difficult to for the maintainers of a site to detect and counter coordinated voting efforts.

dang 8y ago
Writing software to detect and counter coordinated voting is one of the things I've spent the most time on since I started working on HN, and pg had a pretty good system before that. It doesn't catch everything, but it catches an awful lot. I don't believe the stories that make HN's front page are getting there primarily for that reason.