You already have circular buttons, how about a smiley face on top (upvote + bookmark), a frowny face on the bottom (dislike), and a "meh" face in the middle (sk

You already have circular buttons, how about a smiley face on top (upvote + bookmark), a frowny face on the bottom (dislike), and a "meh" face in the middle (skip)? It's a lot more intuitive than what you've currently got, I think. Your current ordering doesn't map to what I think it means (the current order seems to be "meh" on top, "like" in the middle, and "boo" at the bottom). The "like" action should be at the top. Also, I'm not in love with the "next" rollover text. I assume it means "skip", but a user could interpret that as the only way to go to the next item, and upvoting or downvoting before ey're ready (for example, if ey read the first paragraph and like it). It's not horrible, since ey can hit the back button of eir browser, though. Also, I can never decide whether to separate the "upvote" action from the "save" action. Reddit currently has separate functionality for those; HN has them in one. It's a simpler design to combine them, but there are times I want to save things on HN on a smaller list than my upvoted stories list. Ah, for now stick with them being the same; if it becomes a problem, add it later. I'm sure there are much more important things you could be doing on this site. :)