I'm pretty sure the modern meaning of "meme" is fundamentally the same as the original meaning. The fact that lately there's a popular aesthetic (so popular as to have "generators" that ignore the possibility of other aesthetics) is separate in a way.
A bit like how the word "album" was, for a time, heavily implicative of a vinyl record, but fundamentally it's any cohesive grouping of works.
No. A honeypot would work though. This is an example of content that is bound to be shared often on HN. It's trying to be thought-provoking, is relatively old and doesn't require any previous reading or familiarity with a specific technology to be understood.
> Unless it were curated, which is why people are nice.
Curation could be pretty simple: mere submission isn't enough, the submission has to have made it to the front page.
Given the anti-abuse safeguards already in place here (since getting a submission to the front page is an attractive goal already), I wouldn't expect that any attempts to get a link included in that collection would succeed.
How about making a tag, section or filter that's a "best of"? Maybe even a option to add in old posts to your feed? say at the bottom of the first page is a "best of" submission.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...