I don't like "the gentleman's agreement". The worst part of it is limiting yourself to one post a day. Even looking at my comment history on HN, things I have "

I don't like "the gentleman's agreement". The worst part of it is limiting yourself to one post a day. Even looking at my comment history on HN, things I have "just posted" without caring too much get on average more points than posts where I really tried and made a lot of effort. Ergo: Filtering at the source only works if the source knows what the countless receivers will like most. It never does, though. That's why sources on any platform need to be verbose. I'd even say this is the law of social networks and what makes them so great: Verbosity over self-control -- put the control in the hands of others. If you want to separate the gold from the drivel, you can do it later. But if you constantly keep on removing gold from your cart before you even get it out of the mine, you've already lost at this game.