I sometimes wonder if the same thing goes on here, just on a smaller scale. It would be easy to set up... even to automate. Tangentially, I think it would be a

I sometimes wonder if the same thing goes on here, just on a smaller scale. It would be easy to set up... even to automate. Tangentially, I think it would be awesome to get a data-dump of all voting records for, say, 2009, of HN. Something that shows every story and comment (with parent/child relationship) and timestamped voting records. Assign a random id to every account that actually voted to protect privacy and preclude any chilling effect on future votes. That would be fun to mine.