> This has been asked before, a lot of the comments seem to revolve around the idea that it is unpreventable. It's a hard problem, but not impossible. The str

> This has been asked before, a lot of the comments seem to revolve around the idea that it is unpreventable. It's a hard problem, but not impossible. The structure and function of the site itself plays a large part in governing group behavior. Reddit worked for a long time because it had smart people, and a voting system that responded to whatever its userbase wanted. Now it's in rapid decline because it has a growing majority of not-so-smart people, and the voting system still responds to whatever the userbase wants. Reddit also suffered from being known as the site where smart people hang out, which brought lots of Digg refugees over to it (thereby destroying the quality they were looking for). I'd be very interested in seeing a list of reddit headlines with votes weighted by seniority on the site. It might resemble classic reddit.