One of those things that I'd like to have for myself, but don't want everyone else to have. (Magic power is another, fwiw.) I want it because I want to improve

One of those things that I'd like to have for myself, but don't want everyone else to have. (Magic power is another, fwiw.) I want it because I want to improve the SNR of my HN time. I'm never going to read the vast majority of what's on HN, so some imperfect degree of separation of wheat from chaff sounds great. I don't want it because it's a push in the direction of focusing on writers rather than content, and once that ball gets rolling downhill it won't stop until it smashes the previous community to bits. For myself, I don't worry about missing out on an insightful post here and there because the author took a cheap shot at someone in the past. I would rather not miss such posts, but I'm already missing tons of equally valuable posts because of the number of hours in the day. Besides, I intentionally pay attention to people who make cogent points that I disagree with but cannot easily refute. I mean, I am always Right, but sometimes it's helpful to have someone who is Wrong reveal to me that i don't know why I'm right in a particular case. I would only ding people for bad basic logic, uncharitable interpretations, or otherwise wasting my time. ...but isn't that what we all think?