Tell HN: An idea to improve HN front page.

Limit upvotes. Maybe this has already been thought about and dismissed. Here's my thinking: Originally, I thought a good idea might be to give users' votes more weight if they voted less often; perhaps with their karma as a weak coefficient. But that would require significant programming for something that might not work; or significant research into users voting habits to see if it would have the intended effect. As a rare-voter, I feel like my vote 'means more' than a frequent voter, but there is still the question of whether or not my votes are actually a better signal for what we/pg wants the front page to look like. Then, I realized that simply limiting upvotes is cheap and could have basically the same effect. If users had a max of 5 upvotes a day (or maybe 1% of their karma with a minimum of 3); people are less likely to crowd-think and push meme-y things to the front page.