My suggestion would be simpler : have a "this is not hacker news" queue. It's like the frontpage, but it's for the stuff that is "not hackernews". Whenever some

My suggestion would be simpler : have a "this is not hacker news" queue. It's like the frontpage, but it's for the stuff that is "not hackernews". Whenever something hits the frontpage that people feel does not belong, instead of whining, they just hit the "this is not hackernews" vote button. With some algorithm that can combine vote numbers, influencers or whatever, when it crosses the threshhold, it gets moved over to the alternative page. So there is the community moderated hacker news and there is the alternative everyone hacker news.