Sure, this is the approach I try to take. But there are chaff articles that get more attention than I (personally, yes it's subjective) think they deserve, bec

Sure, this is the approach I try to take. But there are chaff articles that get more attention than I (personally, yes it's subjective) think they deserve, because the title is flashier than it could/should be. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be rewarded by the group dynamic. With a smaller community, people will learn to deprecate a 'flashy' submitter's titles but that can't really happen in a community as large as this one's. I think it's an interesting problem. -- edit, here's a recent example I participated in: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704348 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704348 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704664 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=704664 The flashy dupe got 19 points, vs. 8 for a deeper bunch of information I posted in response. I'm not saying this because I care about the discrepancy on a personal level -- it's just an easy-to-recall example of what I'm talking about, because I participated in it. In fact, in this case, hey, maybe people want the quick fix: "Ooh! Graphene! Cool!" Upvote, and move on. But this verges on falling in this category: The worst thing to post or upvote is something that's intensely but shallowly interesting. Gossip about famous people, funny or cute pictures or videos, partisan political articles, etc. If you let that sort of thing onto a news site, it will push aside the deeply interesting stuff, which tends to be quieter. (http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html)