HN doesn't allow you to follow users--that makes a big difference in putting the focus more on the content than the users.
But it's far worse, even without a recognized names, most votes are cast without proper reading, and I'm fairly certain also by the least intelligent subsection given how often submissions are upvoted on H.N. and Reddit that are pure clickbait and demolished in the comments by people that actually read it. People that vote by and large only read the title or the first sentence and make up their mind from there.
Agreed. I was referring to Quora.