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A good link aggregator should strive to select the <1% of articles that are actually high quality. Who cares what “everyone” is doing?

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Isn't that what the vote system is? If the users are selecting low quality then what exactly?

Then we are fucked. A quality platform must strive for more quality than what the average lurker, likely a bot, decides is worth reading. That’s how you get modern Reddit.

Is the goal of this site to remain high-quality, or to rely on random, anonymous users to discern quality? Consider the possibility that the two options might be incompatible.

It might come as a surprise to you, but "random anonymous users discerning quality" is exactly how this site operates and that's working pretty well.

I beg to differ. It's a far cry from where it was a decade ago.

I agree with you, though you’ll find other old users that will claim people have been moaning about the ‘decline in morals’ of this site since its inception

> Who cares what “everyone” is doing?

FOMO-suffering hype junkies do care if there's enough fellow roof jumpers to join to and sing something like "well, define high quality first" in chorus on their way to the ground.

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