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amichail on April 9, 2007 | parent | context | favorite | on: Social news for smart people via ongoing IQ tests

Yet another variation involves an IQ filter so that you can filter out submissions and links submitted by dumb people.

You could even do it with votes as well, so that a link submitted by a high IQ user but endorsed mostly by dumb people would not appear for you.

jkush on April 9, 2007 [–]

My response isn't very scientific, but it seems that having to take a "test" in order to be able to post or comment somewhere would immediately indicate that the community in question would be elitist and probably boring.

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