Why? It's not like nickb can trade his karma in for money.
Xkcd is the best comic out there. It doesn't seem like a flaw in the naive implementation of social news that one or two good comics are on the front page of news.yc sometimes.
And there's nothing to talk about. "Haha yeah that's so true! Um... ok I'm going to go back to work now but not before voting this up because it made me laugh"
Personally I can't figure out why people keep up-voting xkcd submissions.
I don't see what the problem is. As one of the best comics of all time, it seems perfectly reasonable for xkcd to have earned a permanent spot on the front page.
News.yc will have gone the way of reddit when good stories on the new page are immediately buried. As soon as good stories start going unseen, I trust PG to turn on the voter power algorithm and let's hope it works.
