The problem is that I don't know of a really open system like Hacker News that has the same content and community.
Same thing with reddit.
RSS is the right type of idea but you can't comment and it has other limitations compared to things like reddit and Hacker News.
Its not that the overloads are malicious, its just that those types of efforts are completely misguided.
I wonder if anyone knows of any open distributed unedited unmoderated systems that have features and communities like reddit or Hacker News. Ideally not even a single web site, but more like an open peer-to-peer distributed protocol with multiple clients.