There are multiple levels of delegation to the "wisdom of the crowd":

- visiting this HN website by itself is already letting people determine what you read. The stories are submitted by others.

- reading only the front page of just the top-voted 30 stories instead of doom scrolling the additional 1000 is another level of delegation

- inside of each story, only reading a subset of the most upvoted comments is another level

People do all 3 to various degrees because there's limited time to read.

_By far_, the best posts I have ever seen to this website were often ones that didn't get many comments, or may have even gotten reported.