This is a great topic for a site that uses some "wisdom of crowds" mechanisms as part of the story and comment ranking. Though HN is different in some significa

This is a great topic for a site that uses some "wisdom of crowds" mechanisms as part of the story and comment ranking. Though HN is different in some significant ways: in the experiment, subjects are asked carefully worded questions and give answers without being shown any information from others, whereas here there are several signals available before voting on a story or comment, like prior vote count and previous comments, which can bias a vote.