This is not whoring. It's called intelligence. Why should a hundred monks have to scour the same articles? The power of the Internet is to magnify one person's brainpower, and leverage the efforts of a community, whether it is news gathering or building a software library or whatever. I think the effects of gathering a few brain cells together in one place for an extended period of time is enough reward that we could just disallow XP at all for such a section. But don't disallow voting, just use that mechanism to select the best meme/solution/link and make sure it goes to the top of the list.

This is one thing I was trying to get across in a node of mine the other day. We need a persistent mechanism (even a Wiki would be good) that allows PM as a community to maintain long-running topics to which multiple people can contribute information. While such a facility could include a discussion, the main point would be to accumulate and organize knowledge on a certain topic.

Here is a simple, low-security example of something that would work right away, an absolute minimum just to get the ideas going. The scenario is that a scratchpad is made available to the public, user "articles". The scratchpad starts with a line that says "Unfiled", and each person who adds to it writes the article title and a link, under the Unfiled heading. Other people can come and add more links, or help organize things by adding new topic headings or by moving a contributed links under a topic heading. It would be nice if someone could back up the contents of the scratchpad every hour in case some jerk erases the whole thing.

I'm working on systems like this and would be willing to contribute to one.