If you can&#x27;t trust the community&#x27;s votes, perhaps the voting system should be viewed as a failed experiment.  I&#x27;m not being facetious.<p>After all, if you look at HN&#x27;s front page five or six years ago, and compare it to the front page today, you&#x27;ll see that HN used to be a legitimately useful tool for entrepreneurs; whereas now it is primarily a source of frivolous distractions.  There&#x27;s almost nothing on this site that helps entrepreneurs.<p>I understand that YC gets some benefits from the move to lower common denominator  content; but in the long run do you all really want to be associated with a site that destroys more value than it creates?  Because that is where HN is now.  The true entrepreneurial community is gone. The voting is now useless.