Comment by mrkeyboard

Additionally, the kind of people you describe, which is probably a majority by now because they just are, are rendering this site more and more useless by voting up on pure crap.

The system behind Hacker News did not prepare to have itself flooded with a larger audience, which frankly belongs to Mashable, ruining the only thing it was doing so well when it was a small community of creative people.

Either accept Hacker News becoming more popular, essentially aggregating "How I survived a genocide on mars, cured cancer and wrote html6 standards in the process - with only 3 fingers" or re-think the upvote system.