The importance of upvoting
I think this is a misidentification of the true problem.<p>We're dependent on voting to determine "best" or "most important". Even if the sampling were statistically valid, populism does not equate to quality.<p>We should have automated systems for scoring articles on vectors of likely importance, relevance, accuracy and literacy so we can apply these to aggregators in conjunction with basic populism.<p>Because populism is easily gamed and has many known degenerate cases that are not fixed by throwing more populism at it.