Here's an idea: new HNers can upvote, but no downvote. If HN's popularity goes up, you'll have a large influx of upvotes for trivial news, and a limited set of

Here's an idea: new HNers can upvote, but no downvote. If HN's popularity goes up, you'll have a large influx of upvotes for trivial news, and a limited set of users to stop it, which is the typical problem for growing communities. I've been here for almost a year, and I still don't have enough karma to downvote, so I'd guess the number of high karma HNers must not be that big. Also, according to the guidelines[1], you should use the report button (assuming you have enough karma) instead of commenting. Edit: it took me longer to write this comment that it took for the article to go down. Nice. Using Reddit's terms because I'm not sure if there are HN specific ones [1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html