When everyone's votes are weighted equally, it becomes inevitable that the core users can't keep out the "barbarians at the gate", so to speak. Reddit became so

When everyone's votes are weighted equally, it becomes inevitable that the core users can't keep out the "barbarians at the gate", so to speak. Reddit became so weighed down in politics that a subreddit was created for it, back then. (I think. I wasn't into reddit much at the time.) Now the same thing is happening to Hacker News, as far as being overrun with politics. Basically, I think Giles Bowkett is right: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-open-door-heal-or-die.html http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2008/05/summon-monsters-ope... -- I'd incorporate his ideas into a smarter site, if I wanted to waste my life on running it.