Go ahead, post all random wikipedia articles you want. The cool thing is how only the most interesting ones will be upvoted. Now that I think of it, that could be a neat small script to hack.. post random wiki articles on HN, let HN-ers upvote the good ones, and only read the best ranked ones.
Voting works well with small-to-medium communities of readers invested in the quality of discussion, but breaks down in large groups. Look at some of the larger subreddits - people in the comments complain about the quality of frontpage articles because the voting group becomes much larger than the commenting/discussion group.
I wonder what's going to be the next big innovation in filtering the firehose?
