I've been thinking of building an HN clone for politics and society. The requirement to post would be an account of the same name on HN, validated through somet

I've been thinking of building an HN clone for politics and society. The requirement to post would be an account of the same name on HN, validated through something like a code on your profile, and only for users above a certain karma threshold. It basically outsourced the work of making sure users are of decent tech savviness and good faith.