I think this policy needs to come from the top - it just doesn't matter if users start flagging stuff that is more general tech fluff. Websites have big traffi

I think this policy needs to come from the top - it just doesn't matter if users start flagging stuff that is more general tech fluff. Websites have big traffic and SEO incentives to get their stories on this site and they'll keep doing it while they're officially allowed/ignored with their employees and auto-submitters and spam. On the other side is the growing user base who collectively average and resemble diggers and redditors more and more each day and want content that would better suit digg and reddit and is often written specifically for sites like digg and reddit to upvote. There isn't a good mechanism for preventing or reporting this stuff, and if you flag stories excessively you lose the option permanently.