I vote for something like this. I'm new here, but far too often I see thoughtful posts like this being hit hard.

Here's a guy, obviously with some ideas banging around in his head, who feels (rightly or wrongly) that the system as-is is broken. He complains about it, then offers a solution. It seems a reasonable solution and with some tweaks to his/her basic parameters (I think +3/-1 are too constrained) this could work well.

I agree that the spirit of HN seems to be to have good chats on topics and subtopics, and some of the abuses I see around here really scare me off from posting more.