Anyone who visits and has some news or some thoughts they'd like to share, can submit new content for consideration. After someone has submitted something, their node is added to a queue. All registered users can access this list of pending nodes, that is, nodes that have been submitted, but do not yet appear on the public front page. Those registered users can vote whether they think the node should be posted or not. When enough people vote to post a node, the node is pushed over the threshold and up it goes on the public page. On the other hand, when too many people voted to drop a node, the node will get trashed.