For a blend of the two you could do something like: * A draft can only be viewed by reviewers approved by the writer * When a post is published, it also turns

For a blend of the two you could do something like: * A draft can only be viewed by reviewers approved by the writer * When a post is published, it also turns world-readable on the reviewer site, including the reviewers' comments * Let the writers add any reviewer they want to their list of approved reviewers This lets new writers see which reviewers provide the best feedback, and they can add them to their pool of reviewers. The number of approved writers and feedback quality could be used as the base of some sort of karma system. Each reviewer sees a "Most recent" or "HN frontpage"-like list of articles available for review. No action should be required to decline reviewing a article, to prevent popular reviewers from getting swamped. For a business spin and to provide an incentive for reviewers, you could also add a fee to post a draft and distribute (part of?) the money to the reviewers based on their karmic score. Make the size of the fee based on the size of the article to review.