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Respectfully disagree. The only ones that will be upvoted a lot will presumably be the funny ones, not the lame ones.

This is a thoughtful comment and a model of how to disagree on Hacker News. Thank you.

I wish you were right, but I'm afraid you have an overly rosy view of upvotes. For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7506762 shot to #1 in just a few minutes.

Speaking of moderation ideas, now that there is some new blood, here's another random one. I'm not sure it's any good, and it's kind of vague, but... how about if an article gets flagged enough, the upvoters are "named and shamed" in some (not highly visible) way. It might provide a small incentive to not vote for lame stuff.

It feels wrong to out people's votes, which are normally private. The objections I've been making to inappropriate comments are public only because the comments themselves are.

Fair enough. I wouldn't want my comment votes public, but I can't think of any stories where I would mind terribly. I could see reasonable people thinking otherwise, though.

I like the idea but I think it's probably too complex to implement fairly.

CERN using comic sans was hardly funny, yet it made the front page.

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