The importance of upvoting
I think this is a misidentification of the true problem.We're dependent on voting to determine "best" or "most important". Even if the sampling were statistically valid, populism does not equate to quality.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.Because populism is easily gamed and has many known degenerate cases that are not fixed by throwing more populism at it.