You could say HN has a decent web of trust, but it doesn't solve the info overload problem. Think of how many links are not being clicked or read by anyone. H

You could say HN has a decent web of trust, but it doesn't solve the info overload problem. Think of how many links are not being clicked or read by anyone. HN can show us the number everyday. If they say for every 100 links submitted only 1 is getting read. And month by month that 100 is growing to 1000 and 10000 why should/will ppl submit links? HN looks alive. But right now who knows what the number is so the submissions and traffic keep flowing and growing. Scaling it up, when we talk about a dead networks, info exploding for no great reason, is something we need to track and think about more.