A good link aggregator should strive to select the <1% of articles that are actually high quality. Who cares what “everyone” is doing?

Isn't that what the vote system is? If the users are selecting low quality then what exactly?

	▲	sph 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Then we are fucked. A quality platform must strive for more quality than what the average lurker, likely a bot, decides is worth reading. That’s how you get modern Reddit. Is the goal of this site to remain high-quality, or to rely on random, anonymous users to discern quality? Consider the possibility that the two options might be incompatible.