I get what you're saying -- you could assign a level of importance or interesting-ness to an article that would be different than other people's. I think addin

I get what you're saying -- you could assign a level of importance or interesting-ness to an article that would be different than other people's. I think adding a collaborative filter to HN or Reddit based on what you vote and view could actually work really well - that's a great idea. Maybe we could get Reddit or HN to try it. Any Reddit employees here? I'm assuming PG is too busy to add that to HN, but maybe he could open up the codebase to an ambitious programmer.