With the weighing so much to the disadvantage of URL-less posts any comment in this thread about preserving the 'quality of the homepage' is moot. The only page where this would gain significant traction is on the 'ask' page, on the homepage it would be gone pretty quickly.

As a rule I limit my flagging to spam, for the most part the voting system works ok, most of the time.

And with RiderOfGiraffes penchant to pose interesting logical problems I think he should get the benefit of the doubt before hitting the 'kill' button.