Comment by doesnt_know
12 years ago
Sounds good in theory, the best communities are almost always those that are strictly moderated or have their rules heavily enforced.
It will probably make HN worse though. HN already suffers from being too much of a "rich, startup boys club". This will only get worse as those that have been around longer and made comments that "fit" within that viewpoint get karma and get to decide what comments are shown.
I would suggest that this is a fine time for those of us with unfinished HN clones and visions of disrupting the whatever to try and see if we can do better, although the network effect around HN would seem to suggest that most people will simply put up with it or leave for reddit or another larger site.
I'm in. An unbiased HN for scientists/engineers/old-time hackers would be just great. This site's format is perfect, but the scope is too narrow.