Part of HN's success is contributed to the simplicity of the interface. A two-choice voting system doesn't necessarily acurately display the user's intentions,

Part of HN's success is contributed to the simplicity of the interface. A two-choice voting system doesn't necessarily acurately display the user's intentions, but it promotes the most amount of involvement from them. If you were to go with a more complicated voting system, I would suggest going with what is outlined over in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613071 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=613071