I think the focus of HN and Reddit should be to surface content that is interesting to HN or to the subreddit. The rest of things like user karma, etc are(and s

I think the focus of HN and Reddit should be to surface content that is interesting to HN or to the subreddit. The rest of things like user karma, etc are(and should be) secondary in pursuit of the primary objective of the site - surface relevant content. This does not mean that excessive or repetitive submissions should be tolerated.