There are so much more possibilities than just "show vote counts" and "hide vote counts": different sort orders based on more than just votes, collapsing thread

There are so much more possibilities than just "show vote counts" and "hide vote counts": different sort orders based on more than just votes, collapsing threads, marking people as friends, or adding them to a kill-file. Giving votes different weights based on karma, or average comment score. Tagging of articles, and filtering or sorting based on that. And so on, and so on. I understand that pg hasn't got the time to do all kinds of experiments, but this is HN, where more than half of us are great programmers. Give us a simple API and let us do our own experiments. That's all I want.