bitcoin itself is the filter. you have to be smart enough to have some sats to participate in the convos on SN. currently less than 10% of the world's population have any sat.

I hear you, but there are people out there who make everything around them miserable. We have to have some kind of filter, I'm afraid.

magnolia_mayhem

More people will inevitably come since SN, like bitcoin, is the only platform well designed enough to uplift low-quality minds into enlightened ones.

AskSN

lightning

Should we want to grow Stacker News? If so, how?

SN, like bitcoin, is for everyone. 

More people will inevitably come since SN, like bitcoin, is the only platform well designed enough to uplift low-quality minds into enlightened ones.

Have some hope.