This is also significant. Though individuals could also do this – one of the wonders of the internet is that you don't have to be a three-letter agency to act like one.

Ironically, your comment is likely to prevent people from voting on this PSA because they've followed its advice and read your comment which suggests against it… (My head's starting to hurt.)

There are three modes of influence I can think of:

• Post
• Comment
• Recommendation

This proposal reduces the influence of posts slightly, in favour of comments, but also makes recommendations potentially more influential as people will become more accustomed to them.

Examples of stuff that reached the top of the front page but the comments disagree with:

• That thing saying that Mozilla didn't like free speech when it was actually spyware.
• That IQ map that lots of people are saying is made up.