Agreed! The problem I see is that the score does not correlate well with the perceived quality of the community. I'm researching that for some time now and am i

Agreed! The problem I see is that the score does not correlate well with the perceived quality of the community. I'm researching that for some time now and am in the process of preparing a blog article with data analysis and solution approaches. Work in progress: https://github.com/fdietze/downvote-scoring https://github.com/fdietze/downvote-scoring https://felix.unote.io/hacker-news-scores https://felix.unote.io/hacker-news-scores