Ask HN: Allow weighting users to create personalized front page?

For some time I've been pondering that the front page might be more useful to me if I had the ability to weight the votes made by individual users -- by making the votes of users whose interests I share count n times as much, for example, I could essentially let them pre-screen content for me and thus get a more personally relevant mix. I can think of two ways to expose this on the site: a) Have the regular and personalized front pages be separate pages the user can jump between at will. b) Keep showing the same front page content to everyone, but visually indicate items that trusted users have voted on. The obvious consideration with either scheme is that they give the most popular (or for a more positive spin: the most trusted) users on the platform, i.e. those that the largest amount of users have chosen to weight above average, a significant amount of control over how content is perceived on Hacker News. One might argue that is a natural extension of what's already there, though - content by trusted authors already has a higher chance of making it to the front page. In any case, it's why I think it would be important to preserve the ability to look at the unfiltered front page. Another consideration is privacy. The 'b' scheme is meant to have less of an effect on the content users get to see by keeping the list of items on the front page the same for everyone, but it gives up the votes of others in a very direct way. The 'a' scheme might avoid that, at least if changing your weighting preferences were rate-limited (i.e. if you can only change weights once per day, then the regular movement on the front page would make it fairly hard to deduce votes by comparing to the unfiltered page). What do you think? Would you like to have the ability to weight users' votes? Would you exercise it? Would it affect the HN formula positively or negatively in your eyes?