alt Hacker NewsSocials should do no scoring whatsoever. Once you score you are editorialising which means you should have a director that is liable for everything published.
If you don't want that, no editorialising, let people see just the people they follow or what their friends share and that is it.
Can't have it both ways.
They absolutely should do scoring. Imagine i posted this comment as a response to every single other comment here.
Nobody is going to want to use a platform with spam.