When many new users join SN and there isn't enough great content on the board, all sorts of random user bios get upvoted to the top of the page.

Yesterday there was a time when 3 of the top 6 posts were people's bios.

I think the original idea for implementing this was to make it known that Stacker News was getting lots of new users, but now I feel like tides have turned.

Tons of people are already talking about Stacker News in the Bitcoin community, and many are very aware of the fast growth rate the site is seeing.

My suggestion would be to remove the ability for bios to rank on the main feed, I think it will improve the signal on the board.