Cool. More or less on the same page then. Personally, I think:

(1) SN has a great community; (2) Long form, thoughtful posts should be encouraged (I care less about toxicity, echo chambers, etc.). As mentioned in other posts, I would further further divide that into (a) well organized threads including blogs with follow-up's, and (b) first hand experience type tutorials on everything Bitcoin.

Re: your point on upvote and tips - not sure how posts get pushed to "TOP", but another feature to upvote should be reasonably simple to implement and for the community to understand.

I enjoyed Reddit and HN, and hope SN will move slowly to find its niche - wherever we end up landing.