Why not do this via email? I don't think a lot of people need to be involved. Once or twice a day, a moderator circulates draft articles to the list. Each autho

Why not do this via email? I don't think a lot of people need to be involved. Once or twice a day, a moderator circulates draft articles to the list. Each author can list a publishing deadline, so a reviewer can choose whether or not to start reading the piece based on the time available, and so nobody contributes thought to a piece that has already been published. Granted, this doesn't scale, but I don't think this is something that is meant to scale: it should be a small group of eloquent, thoughtful writers who can provide meaningful feedback prior to publishing to a broader audience. The problem with web-based solutions is that they're not pushed to reviewers, so many of the busier people whose insights may be most valuable to an author will not remember to check the site. For example, I doubt Paul posts an essay draft to a private site and waits for his colleagues to check it for drafts to review. Although I wouldn't be able to provide feedback on every entry, I would enjoy contributing thoughts to authors in a format like this, and I think it would help create special relationships between people in a different way than the HN community boards (less anonymous, more thoughtful, etc). Edit: I see a lot of suggestions here about how to fix this problem with technology using crypto, etc.; I don't think this is a technology problem as much as a social organization problem.