That depends. If it involves a wily way around the rules limiting bike engineering, for example, it might be HN :-) But I get what you're saying, and that's wh

That depends. If it involves a wily way around the rules limiting bike engineering, for example, it might be HN :-) But I get what you're saying, and that's why we have moderators. Left to its own devices, a crowd is unable to self-moderate and keep something like HN from drifting into popularity cascades. This is especially true when people are given information about what other people think (the score, the position on the home page, comments) before voting themselves.