It isn't the quantity of Snowden stories that are the problem. It is the tenuous relationship with reality of many of the "stories" that have been posted that

It isn't the quantity of Snowden stories that are the problem. It is the tenuous relationship with reality of many of the "stories" that have been posted that is the problem. This morning we had a story at #1 for quite a while that claimed Twitter was censoring #Snowden from trending in the United States. Instead of actually going to Twitter and seeing that this was a ridiculous claim, people just kept upvoting it because it sounded like something they should upvote. This is a phenomenon that all sites with voting systems on submissions have. People tend to go and satisfy their slacktivism itch by upvoting headlines that they agree with without actually reading the articles or really thinking about them. To the moderators' credit, they deleted the Twitter "censorship" submission. I know they have deleted some other very low quality Snowden/NSA related articles as well.