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cromulent: It may well be a viable solution, but I am not convinced that the problem of "the ability to see at glance what a link is about" exists for everyone. Not for me, anyway.In terms of "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity", the variety that I find by clicking through a high-rated item with an obscure or mystifying headline is welcome.A tagging system may help me to pre-filter, but by applying my own filters instead of trusting the HN community filter, I would no doubt lose the surprises and intellectual gratification. Some of my favourite items have come through not knowing what the link is about, but clicking anyway.