Yeah, it wasn't really a serious suggestion, as I think it's a "juice not worth the squeeze" feature, by any sane metric.  

But I like thinking about the limits of possibility for these game theoretic systems of trust and attention.

The tradeoff between trust, transparency, accessibility to new users, robustness to bots/spam, and overall utility is a difficult balance to strike.

SimpleStacker

By fast food analogy: I like in-n-out because it serves hamburgers with little variation and has a relatively limited menu. It makes great hamburgers, and at scale, because it makes them with little variation and has a relatively limited menu.

I'm much more interested in building, and using, an In-n-out than a McDonalds.

k00b

Beyond information overload and engineering overload, it'd fracture everyone's experience on SN.

Under high variation regimes, the things I say about my experience aren't likely true of yours. e.g. this discussion we are having would be much harder to have if there were even a handful of modes of SN.

There's something special about us all playing the same game at the same time.

Stacker Saloon

saloon

Beyond information overload and engineering overload, it'd fracture everyone's experience on SN.

Under high variation regimes, the things I say about my experience aren't likely true of yours. e.g. this discussion we are having would be much harder to have if there were even a handful of modes of SN.

There's something special about us all playing the same game at the same time.