The problem with whitelisting users or even attenuation is that you would be able to determine the vote counts of individual users. But perhaps votes being publ

The problem with whitelisting users or even attenuation is that you would be able to determine the vote counts of individual users. But perhaps votes being publicly ascribable to users is not a problem. I think they're public by default on twitter. Another interesting feature would be to set vote significance based on a subset of users from a given subforum. In reddit terms, this would be, maybe you trust the content or membership of a given subreddit more than you do the subset of all users, so you set the website to filter on `r/foo` user upvotes instead of `r/all` user upvotes. There's a lot of potential here to let users craft their on miniverse of relevance and information filtering.