What you describe isn&#x27;t super far off from what HN does—it is a mixture of voting and curation. I wouldn&#x27;t go so far as to call us a BD though.<p>For sure the goal of HN is to optimize for quality content, though, not engagement per se (though engagement is important to deciding what counts as high-quality), nor raw numbers. That&#x27;s because the value of the site is intellectual curiosity.