Their philosophy is that some people are better suited to judge usefulness than others. They apparently believe that a one-developer, one-vote system would not judge such questions "correctly."
> They apparently believe that a one-developer, one-vote system would not judge such questions "correctly."
I find this dichotomy fascinating.
They do a fair job of justifying that democratic voting doesn't generally identify useful questions, but then again the site's main feature is a one-person, one-vote system.
