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If you have a good story, you will go to hackernews and post it. I think this "innovation" is going to lead to a lower post quality.

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That's a possible side-effect. But it has benefits (for e.g. better content discovery) that I think out-weighs the side-effect.

On the other note, if vote count is the measure of content quality, the ease to vote should not adversely affect the system but improve it.

Yeah Im kind of realizing this too, we dont want rampant mindless liking. Part of what makes the vote here work is that you can compare posts with one another and see if similar stories were already submitted etc... What if we make the like button really small..."^" so that only people familiar with it will notice it? lol

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