I just wanted to float this option out there for discussion to see if people thought a tighter clique would be better. I would also be cut out of the community

I just wanted to float this option out there for discussion to see if people thought a tighter clique would be better. I would also be cut out of the community if it were invitation-only. I note that the /old experiment (a Hacker News whose voting data set was limited entirely to accounts > 1 year old) demonstrated no obvious improvement in quality. It seems to be entirely a question of the public choice of what is acceptable content to submit.