/.'s system works because the number of users who want to have a discussion outnumber the people who want to shout obscenities in all caps. That is only true be

/.'s system works because the number of users who want to have a discussion outnumber the people who want to shout obscenities in all caps. That is only true because there is no money in shouting obscenities in all caps on /.- but there is plenty of money in upvoting spam on Google. If they switched to crowdsourced curation today, you'd have have a spammer to user ratio of 10:1 before February 1st.