> Additionally I feel that HN has a good algorithm to stop most of the people who wouldn't be a good fit anyway.
> Posting a post on HN and then getting people to vote won't get you to the front page (and if it does, getting dropped off it is pretty easy if the content you posted is not relevant).
If there's too much spam, those brave netizens who patrol the windswept frontier of /newest don't get time to look at what is actually good.
> those brave netizens who patrol the windswept frontier of /newest
I don't know how they feel about it, but I sometimes feel that visiting /newest to vote / flag stuff is a kind of civic duty. For the good of all of us (except the ones who are dead).
> Posting a post on HN and then getting people to vote won't get you to the front page (and if it does, getting dropped off it is pretty easy if the content you posted is not relevant).
If there's too much spam, those brave netizens who patrol the windswept frontier of /newest don't get time to look at what is actually good.
They start upvoting on headlines.