This site has a culture. That culture is to focus on intellectual curiosity. It doesn't mean other things aren't also good; I personally love frivolous humor. But HN can't be all things. It needs a focus, and optimizing for one thing means trading away others, as in any engineering or design problem. The real agenda behind my post is that we want to get the community participating more in maintaining this culture. It's an experiment and it may not work, but I hope it does.