Instead of just voting up or down, maybe there should be a sideways vote: off-topic. That would allow shallow and non-hacker related, but yet popular, posts to

Instead of just voting up or down, maybe there should be a sideways vote: off-topic. That would allow shallow and non-hacker related, but yet popular, posts to be moved to a separate page. Should help clean the front page of such news, but in a way it might also legitimise it.