I agree, and the solution is simple: upvote all other stories that fit your desired HN content and leave this story unvoted. There was a paper a while back tha

I agree, and the solution is simple: upvote all other stories that fit your desired HN content and leave this story unvoted. There was a paper a while back that explained how with the current algorithms, upvoting neighboring stories has largely the same effect as downvoting.